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Excavation
Date 1980 - 1982
Event ID 571904
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/571904
NS 822 797 to NS 825 798 Excavation demonstrated that the Wall lay on a line some 6m to the S of that shown on large-scale OS maps. The kerbs of the stone base had been robbed away, but a sufficient amount of the rubble core survived to suggest that the original width was not less than 4.57m. No trace of the superstructure remained. The ditch was found to be much destroyed by recent levelling. Trial-trenching aimed at locating the missing Seabegs fort (NS87NW 32.01) proved unsuccessful.
F O Grew 1980; J F Murray 1982.
NS 822 797 In observation during building work, the Antonine ditch was traced 138m W of the point located in 1979 and approximately on the same alignment. The ditch was 8m wide and its fill yielded much organic material. A trench 80m E of the point sectioned and running c.10m S of the wall-line found no evidence of Seabegs fort (NS87NW 10).
S S Frere 1983.
