Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704750

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS67SE 18 c.677 748.

(Area: NS 677 748) In May 1771, four Roman altars and part of a fifth, a mutilated stone bust, and two large iron mallets, were found in a rubbish pit immediately S of Auchendavie Roman fort (NS67SE 12) by workmen constructing the Forth-Clyde Canal. They were found in a pit, 7' diameter at the mouth, narrowing to about 3' at the bottom, and 9' deep. Altar (i) was dedicated to Jupiter and Victory; it measures 3'0 3/4" x 1'2 1/2": (ii), dedicated to Minerva, the Campestres, Hercules, Epona and Victory, measures 2'9 1/2" x 1'0 1/2": (iii), dedicated to Diana and Apollo, measures 2'4 3/8" x 1'0 1/8: (iv), dedicated to Britannia, measures 2'6 3/8" x 11": and (v), dedicated to Silvanus, measures 10 1/2" x 7 1/2". The fragmentary bust represents the torso of a man in armour. All are in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, but the mallets have been lost.

G Macdonald 1934; J Macdonald 1897.