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Archaeology Notes
Date 1966
Event ID 683153
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683153
NO13NE 26 centred 1632 3766
(NO 1632 3768) An artificial mound at the Mains of Cargill known as Carrick-Know, or Boathill, close to the junction of the Tay and Isla is referred to by Pennant (1809). In 1941, Eric Bradley (J K St Joseph 1958) saw from the air cropmarks which subsequently proved to be those of a large blockhouse (I A Richmond 1943) or fortlet (J K St Joseph 1965) at NO 164 376.
Two ditches are visible interrupted in the two opposite and longer sides, as if by a gate. The position of the ditches was confirmed by trenching in 1965. The inner was 8 1/2ft wide and 4 1/2ft deep filled with clay no doubt from the rampart and the outer one 5ft by 3 1/2ft with no traces of a rampart remaining.
A diagonal trench dug within the fortlet suggested that the Roman levels had been removed by ploughing. The dimension from NE-SW between ditches is 276ft, and that at right angles about two-thirds of this.
Information from O G S Crawford, undated; J Roman Stud 1966
