Field Visit
Date 26 March 1997
Event ID 678927
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678927
NN81NE 25 8820 1883
A ditch visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1977-8) describes what may be one end of a rectilinear enclosure lying on a low rise on the N bank of the River Earn. All that survives is the ENE end, the N and S angles and parts of the adjacent sides, that on the SSE cut by the present channel of the River Earn, and that one the NNW by an earlier channel. The enclosure measures 21m in internal breadth and is of unknown length.
Excavations in 1997 by B Hoffmann, Dept of Classics, University College Dublin, suggested that the enclosure may have been a work camp associated with the construction of the railway.
(EARNAP 61)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 26 March 1997.
