Excavation

Date 1946 - 1947

Event ID 633047

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Trenched by Richmond in 1946 and 1947 (OS 25" map annotated by I A Richmond, 20 October 1945) (TS excavation report in Ashmolean Museum, 1946-7). He established the line of the 22' wide rampart on the N, W, and S, giving external measurements of 480' N-S by 595' to 615' E-W, with the main entrance facing W. The line of the E rampart could be only approximately determined as trenching was not feasible - part of it lay under graves. An external ditch surrounded the fort. Traces of stabling would appear to indicate cavalry.

There was clear evidence for two Antonine periods of occupation but nothing to indicate a third phase. An As of Vespasian (69 - 79), found in the garden of Inveresk House in approximately 1931, would also appear to indicate a Flavian occupation. (See NT37SW 13 - Bath-house).

I A Richmond