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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 682614
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/682614
NO12NW 14 1044 2715.
Dr St Joseph states that part of the NE side and the rounded N angle of a Roman temporary camp are visible at NO 104 272 on air photographs taken in 1952-3. A length of some 675ft of the NE side is visible, including a gate at which there is a tutulus, the remainder of the camp being concealed by a racecourse. (Inspection of the photographs suggests that St Joseph is referring to a dark cropmark extending from NO 1035 2724 to NO 1057 2715 as his 'NE side'.
J K St Joseph 1955.
Trial trenches dug in 1968-9 confirmed that most of the camp underlies the racecourse, but the whole of the W side, most of the S, and about half the N is known. The axial dimensions are 1,290ft N-S by more than 1,800ft. A gate is known in each of the N and S sides but their positions are not opposed, indicating that each of the two long sides has had two gates.
Size and plan leave no doubt that it belongs to the 63 acre class, and is therefore Severan.
J K St Joseph 1969; 1970.
Photographed by the RCAHMS.
Information from RCAHMS air photographs, PT 4668; PT 4716-7; flown 1976.
