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Trial Trench
Date October 1998 - October 1998
Event ID 568819
Category Recording
Type Trial Trench
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568819
NS 6865 7525 - NS 6918 7552 The line of the Antonine Wall has been confirmed between Shirva Farm and Wester Shirva through a programme of geophysical survey and trial excavations. These works were undertaken as part of Historic Scotland's review of the Scheduling of this monument.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
B Glendinning 1998
NS 688 754 Three separate evaluations took place between 1998 and 2001 along the Antonine Wall between Wester Shirva and Shirva Farm, including the crossing point of the Board Burn.
First, in October 1998 geophysical survey and trial trenching were conducted between Wester Shirva and Shirva (NS 6865 7525-NS 6981 7552). These results had not confirmed the crossing point of the Board Burn by the frontier works, and several different alignments were possible. The geophysics depicted an anomaly representing a large ditched feature. Trenches were placed to examine these anomalies, which proved to be the Ditch.
B Glendinning 1998
A Dunwell, G Bailey, A Leslie, A Smith 2002.
