Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702956

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS59NE 13 NS 56560 99810

A temporary camp with two Stracathro-type gates, one on the NW side, the other on the 945' long SE side. There is a change in direction about the mid point of the 1,220' long NE side, and possibly also in the SW side. The area may be estimated at 23 1/2 acres.

J K S St Joseph 1973.

The south quadrant of the temporary camp survives. This has been deep ploughed and afforested. Sufficient remains to show that it consisted of an earth-and-stone bank 3.5m wide and 0.6m high with an outer ditch

2.0m wide and 0.4m deep.

Visited by OS 28 April 1975.