Excavation

Date July 1960 - August 1960

Event ID 572643

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS 9870 8068 At Dean House, Kinneil, Stirlingshire, in July and August, 1960 a limited excavation, supervised by Mr. G. Maxwell and Mr. J. Wallace, was carried out in the policies of Dean House, recently demolished, to examine the possibility that a Roman fort existed on the site overlooking the Dean Burn (see NS98SE 9). The Antonine ditch was found, only 18ft. wide instead of the expected standard 40ft. No fort existed. The fort long conjectured in the vicinity is most probably near Kinneil House by the Gil Burn (Cruden 1960).

Ditch found by excavation in 1960 (Steer 1963)