Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685480

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO21NW 59 207 176.

Overlying the camp (NO21NW 58) and outside the fort (NO21NW 24) to the S is to the S is the cropmark of a polygonal enclosure, the ditch of which has been traced for 2,425' in three straight sectors, meeting at obtuse angles. In the central sector are two gates, each with a titulum. A trial trench showed the ditch to be V-shaped, 11' wide and 4 1/2' deep. It evidently formed the landward defences of an area of 70 acres, bounded on the N by the steep slope down to the River Tay.

J K St Joseph 1969; 1973.

Nothing is visible of the large polygonal Roman enclosure that has been recorded by aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996) around the fortress (NO21NW 24.00) at Carpow. Aerial photography has also recorded a large number of pits both inside and outside the enclosure.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 4 February 1997.