Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691866

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO66NE 5.00 centred 6657 6667

NO66NE 5.01 NO 663 668 Enclosure

(Name: NO 6657 6667) Roman Camp (R) (site of)

OS 252 map, (1974)

The greater part of this Roman camp, shown by Chalmers as Richard of Gloucester's 'Ad Tinam', is visible on aerial photographs. (cf NO66NW 12)

J K St Joseph 1969; G Chalmers 1808; Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK228: 3014-15 and F22/82/RAF1020: 0051-2 and on CUCAP D 96

No ground traces.

Surveyed at 1:2500 from air photographs.

Visited by OS (A A) 8 September 1971.

NO 6676 6658 A watching brief was carried out in January 2006 during the replacement of an electricity pole at Balmakewan Farm, the site of a Severan Roman Camp. The replacement pole was located some 300m NE of Balmakewan House. No archaeological features or finds were evident.

Report lodged with Aberdeenshire SMR and NMRS.

Sponsors: SSE Power Distribution.

J C Murray, 2006.