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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 680336
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/680336
NO01NW 1 centred 03940 17530
NO 039 175: Roman temporary camp discovered from air photographs in August 1951 (Visible on J K St Joseph air photographs JQ 71-2). Although it lies at the N end of one of the very few gaps in the Ochil massif, it is not on any Roman route at present known. It measures c.2050' x 1350' the ramparts being formed from upcast from the ditch. The defences were trenched in 1952, when the W entrance was located.
R W Feachem 1952; J Roman Stud 1953.
No traces of this camp were seen on the ground.
Visited by OS (W D J) 2 November 1965.
62 acre, Severan. In each of the sides of the camp there is a slight re-entrant angle, the two shorter sides being bowed out and the longer sides bowed in, the changes in direction taking place at the gate positions. A tutulus has been recorded at the S gate and at one of the two W gates. An 'annexe' defined by a narrow ditch has also appeared, attached to the S side of the camp between the S gate and the SE angle. The size is approximately 329' x 290'.
J K St Joseph 1965; J K St Joseph 1969.
A gold coin of Hadrian was found in September 1829.
J D Bateson 1990
