OS Map 1980-1 Survey of the Antonine Wall
Date 1980
Event ID 569197
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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NS 7064 7600 to NS 7100 7619 The published course (OS 25 inch 1958) was resurveyed. The Ditch is fairly well defined and varies from 8m to 15m in width and from c.1m (on the W) to some 3m deep. It is likely that a c.50m length of Ditch was uncut at NS 7087 7613 owing to the slope and hardness of rock, but from surface evidence this is not obvious and it is possible that a narrowing of the Ditch has been effaced by later land usage and slip; there is a suggestion that the Outer Mound, elsewhere extant in this area, was continuous across this length. There are no intelligible remains of the Rampart, but the sharp terrain around the N side of Castle Hill should not have prevented a continuous, angled construction along a natural terrace. This section is under Scottish Development Department (Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments) Guardianship.
Information from OS 1980