Excavation

Date September 1990

Event ID 570599

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS c.7219 7615 and NS c.7222 7615 Two trenches were placed across likely alignments E of Kilsyth Road. The Military Way was located in line with its course W of Kilsyth Road. It occupied a shelf in the hillside, below the summit of the knoll, and consisted mainly of small cobbles. It as edged on the N side with carefully laid medium-sized cobbles and was accompanied by a shallow drainage gully, 0.8m wide and 0.2m deep. The breadth of the road could not be established.

L J G Keppie, G B Bailey, A J Dunwell, J H McBrien, K Speller 1995.