Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700469

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS46SE 16 4679 6390.

(NS 4679 6390) Supposed site of CAMP (R)

OS 1:500 map (1864)

Following Principal Dunlop, writing in the late 17th century (see NS46SE 4) the monument which occupied this site, at the W end of an area of elevated ground, adjoining Woodside Cemetery, was considered in the mid 19th century to have been a Roman camp, associated with NS46SE 4 and similar in appearance to NS46SE 3. Vestiges remained in the late 17th century, indicating that a rampart and ditch had enclosed an area slightly larger than that occupied by the probable fort described on NS46SE 4. However, by 1857, no traces remained, nor could any local informant recollect having seen any indications of an enclosure. three "small, crude earthen drinking cups", said to be Roman by a Paisley antiquarian, which had been found in the immediate neighbourhood by Mr Barr of Ferguslie Place several years before 1857 were in the possession of Mrs Barr in that year. The exact find spot could not be identified. There appears to be no real evidence for a Roman site at Paisley; NS46SE 3, with which this site is compared, and thought to be a Norman ringwork, or possibly of Iron Age date.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1857

The area is now used as a cemetery, and no remains of an earthwork can be seen. The cemetery is situated at the top of a hill which has a steep slope to the N, and a more gradual one to the W, S and E.

Visited by OS (JHO) 31 March 1951