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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 700592
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/700592
NS47SE 16 4930 7341 to 4924 7343.
Two earthen mounds published but unnamed at NS 4930 7341 (A) and NS 4924 7343 (B) are known locally as the 'Roman Hills'.
They were described by the original surveyor, on local advice, as tumuli; but a note in the Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] describes them as natural. The surveyor says that one of them was excavated about 1847 by members of the Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh, who found nothing.
Name Book 1860; OS 6" map (1919)
Mound 'B' is certainly natural, typical of many knolls in the locality. Mound 'A' would also appear to be natural, but it is motte-like in appearance, being regular and conical in shape and flat-topped. It measures over all 50.0m in diameter and is 13.0m in diameter across
the top, and 7.5m in height. There is no trace of a ditch.
The name 'Roman Hills' could not be verified.
Visited by OS (EGC) 1 September 1966
NS 493 734. A mound of oval base measuring approximately 170 by 130ft lies 730 yds N of the Roman fort (NS47SE 12). There is a report of some small finds being made but their nature and present whereabouts are unknown.
A Hunter 1967
Two mounds as described by OS (EGC).
Visited by OS (MJF) 11 November 1980.
