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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691622
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691622
NO77NW 4 7355 7703.
(NO 7355 7703) Moat (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1978)
ROMAN CAMP (R) Spear found (NAT)
OS 6" map, Kincardineshire, 2nd ed., (1904)
A well-preserved medieval moat 18ft wide, 6ft deep, still wet, fed by a stream which enters at the NE corner. The area enclosed measures about 83 yds by 38 yds and in 1799 a gate 22ft wide was visible very near the SW corner (Chalmers 1801) In older accounts this site figured as the 'praetorium' of a Roman camp (NO77NW 9).
In 1863 Dr C Buchan (Fourdon) had a steel spearhead found in the centre of the site. He described it as Roman and said that the finder had noted that it had been attached to a long oaken shaft, around which was an iron band bearing the word 'Agricola', since lost.
O G S Crawford 1949; Name Book 1863; G Chalmer 1801.
A moat, as described. The NE, SW and SE corners have all been mutilated. Causeways across the N and S ditches are modern. There is no trace of an entrance or interior buildings. The stream which entered at the NE corner has been filled in.
No further information about the spearhead.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 5 December 1967.
This site is listed in an Atlas of Scottish History (McNeill and MacQueen 1996) as a moated site.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) September 1997.
(Location cited as NO 7355 7704: nominated as Site of Regional Significance).
This monument is situated in flat ground at an altitude of 73m OD.
[GRC/AAS ground photographic imagery listed].
NMRS, MS/712/35.
