Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690939

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO65NE 21 centred 6890 5959.

(NO 6890 5959) Roman Camp (Site), Dun: Air photographs show a small enclosure measuring 545 ft E-W by 660 ft (8 acres in area), with rounded corners and two gates, one each in the E and W sides. Identification as a Roman camp was confirmed by the V-shaped ditch exposed in two trial sections, one of which yielded a piece of late 1st century Samian ware near the bottom of the silt filling.

J K St Joseph 1973.

This camp was threatened in 1990 by a replacement of the gas main along the A935 which cuts through the centre of the camp. Two areas were excavated along the line of the new pipe, where it would pass through the camp ditch. The east camp ditch proved to have already been disturbed by existing gas and water mains in this area. A section of the west ditch was excavated. It had an "ankle breaker" profile, V-shaped with a square slot along the bottom, and had rapidly silted after cutting before being deliberately backfilled.

Sponsors: HBM; British Gas.

I M Rogers 1990c.