Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701524

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS42NW 10 4425 2693.

(NS 4425 2693) Roman Trenches (R)

OS 25" map (1856)

Earthworks (NAT)

OS 6" map (1911)

At Parkmoor, there is a place called the Roman Camp, where trenches are to be seen (NSA 1845). These ditches, which Dr Steer considers to be merely hollow tracks, and not antiquities, are fully described and illustrated by Smith (1895).

Information from K A Steer (RCAHMS) letter, 13 October 1953.

This series of hollows are all quite irregular and their archaeological significance is doubtful. No further information obtained.

Visited by OS (JLD) 14 May 1954

This irregular series of artificially-cut ditches run roughly parallel in a SE-NW direction down a gently W-facing and wooded slope at c70m OD. They are closely spaced, mostly V-shaped, and range from 0.5m to 2.0m in depth with little evidence of upcast banking. Some conjoin to form wider channels which fade at the steeper slopes above the water of Fail. Having no obvious archaeological function, the ditches are not a prominent landmark, and do not form an ornamental terrace system. They mostly retain a sharp profile, suggesting a late date, and may be of some minor industrial usage.

Visited by OS (JRL) 18 November 1980.