Watching Brief

Date March 1984

Event ID 571903

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/571903

NS87NW RRX 505 822 797.

See also NS87NW 29.

In the redevelopment of this site a drain trench cut the upper fill of the Antonine Wall Ditch. Both the N and S sides of the ditch were visible at depths of, respectively, 0.90m and 1.40m below modern ground surface and between these the upper 0.60m of the fill was visible. Allowing for the angle of cut, the width of the Ditch here was 9.00m, with the sides sloping at a 30 degree angle to the horizontal. The uniform nature of the fill suggested deliberate infilling, probably immediately prior to the initial development of the site in 1900. There was no evidence of the wall itself. The central line of the ditch is approximately 7.00m north of the line suggested by the Ordnance Survey (first edition).

D F Devereux 1984.