Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704874

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704874

NS67SW 21 63660 73097

See also NS67SW 45.00 (Antonine Wall).

(NS 63662 73097) Roman Fortlet, Glasgow Bridge (Site: Crop-markings on CUCAP and RCAHMS air photographs (QW 90-4: flown 14 July 1955; LA 2226-8, flown 1977) reveal the presence of a fortlet attached to the S side of the Antonine Wall 180m ENE of Glasgow Bridge. It occupies a moderately strong position on the brow of a north-facing slope. Probably measuring some 20m square internally, it has been defended on the NW by the Antonine Wall and on the other three sides by a rampart and single ditch. A gap in the ditch shows that there was an entrance in the centre of the SE side, and it can be assumed that there was another entrance in a corresponding position on the NW side; in the latter case, however, the Antonine Ditch must have been bridged, as no traces of a causeway are visible on the air photographs. This fortlet is comparable with that at Wilderness Plantation, and was presumably intended for a similar purpose: cf NS57SE 11. (Fortlet published on OS Antonine Wall Map 1969).

RCAHMS 1978, visited 1973.

There are no visible surface remains of this fortlet, the site of which lies in a pasture field. Its ditch and rounded NE angle are visible on the RAF air photograph (F21/82/RAF/1236: 0171).

Visited by OS (D S), 18 January 1957.

Under crop; no surface traces remain.

Visited by OS (D S), 18 January 1957.

Scheduled with length of Antonine Wall from NS c. 63562 73004 to NS c. 64223 73575 (NS67SW 45.00), Roman temporary camp (NS67SW 24), and henge (NS67SW 27).

[Location map supplied].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 June 2010.