Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678313

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678313

NN81SW 19 84046 10229

ROMAN ANNEXE [R]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.

For other elements of Ardoch, Roman Military Complex , see:

NN80NW 10 NN 8390 0990 Fort

NN80NW 32 NN 8425 0999 Fort (Formerly entered as Temporary Camp)

NN81SW 7 NN 8452 1075 Watch Tower (Scheduled as Signal Station)

NN81SW 15 NN 8390 1090 Temporary Camp ('63 acre')

NN81SW 16 NN 8370 1060 Temporary Camp ('30 acre')

NN81SW 17 NN 8380 1050 Temporary Camp ('13 acre': within NN81SW 16)

NN81SW 18 NN 8420 1080 Temporary Camp ('120 acre')

NN81SW 40 Camelon - Ardoch - Strageath - Cargilll Roman road (RR 9a) [Scheduled length from NN 8425 1034 to NN 8486 1127].

For field-system at cited location (centred NN 8424 1028) within the area of this temporary camp, see NN81SW 21.

Examination of the remains of eighteenth-century field boundaries, marked on Roy's plan and still visible within the annexe, has led to the recognition of a rampart and ditch forming part of the south and west sides, and the rounded south-west angle of an enclosure. The resemblance to the defences of a temporary camp has now been confirmed by digging, which established the north-to-south dimension of the camp as 710ft. to this, an extension of 140 feet had later been added on the south side.

J K St Joseph 1976.

Scheduled as 'a large area defended by an upstanding rampart and ditch, thought to be an annexe to the fort' [NN80NW 10] and ' within 'Ardoch, Roman military complex 900m NNE of Ardoch Bridge...'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 March 2008.