Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705058

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS57SW 50 5082 7225.

NS 508 723 Cleddans. A Roman fortlet located by trial trenching in 1979 measured internally 18m east-west by 17.6m north-south within a rampart set on a 3.6m wide stone base.

It predates the Antonine Wall which abuts it at the north-east corner at a sharp angle. The north-west corner had been much disturbed by ploughing but the Wall would have joined it some way south of this angle.

F O Grew 1980; L Keppie and J Walker 1980.

NS 5082 7225 There is no surface trace of the fortlet or the 1979 excavations on the highest level area of a field under plough/stubble at circa 70m OD.

Site surveyed at 1:1250 from excavation plans provided by L Keppie, Hunterian Museum.

Visited by OS (J R L) 13 January 1981.