OS Map 1980-1 Survey of the Antonine Wall
Date 1980
Event ID 569198
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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NS 7000 7588 to NS 7064 7600 Published course (OS 25 inch 1958) was resurveyed. Though poorly defined through most of this sector and there are no intelligible remains of the Rampart or Outer Mound, the exact course is not in doubt and the line of the Ditch is traceable throughout. The Ditch varies from being an open, silted hollow 0.5 to 1m deep on the E, to an overgrown but sharply profiled hollow about 12m wide and up to 2.5m deep on the W. In the middle area, old mining activity has confused the line. The resurvey has revealed an original alignment angle W of Barr Farm, and at this point, in an arable field, the line of the Rampart was detected in 1980 as a differential crop growth. Part of this section is under the Scottish Development Department (Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments) Guardianship, from NS 7060 7598 to NS 7064 7600.
Information from OS 1980
