Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690731

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51SW 14 54474 12482

NO 546 126. A Roman camp has been indentified on the farm of Bonnytown. The whole of the NE side, 950' long, at least 1,025 of the SE side, and the rounded E and N angles are known so far.

J K St Joseph 1965

Excavations carried out in 1967 in the fields centred on NO 547 125 and NO 546 124 by Dundee University Archaeol Group have proved the existence of a Roman camp. No trace on ground (Mr Ballantyne, Balkaithley and Bonnytown).

Visited by OS (EGC) 10 September 1968

35 acres. Probably Flavian.

J K St Joseph 1969