Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705596

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS69NW 5 61774 98868

(NS 6177 9887) Camp (NR)

OS 6" map (1901)

A quadrangular earthwork with sides measuring 65, 67, 72 and 83ft. Both Christison and Crawford agree that although it is often described as Roman, it is quite certainly mediaeval or later in date.

A Late Bronze Age cauldron or bucket of very thin beaten bronze (now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland {NMAS}: Accession no. DU 11 (J M Coles 1962) was found within the 'camp' in the early 19th century. It is made of three sheets of hammered metal rivetted together and is 1'7" high, 10" in diameter across the bottom; 1'2" across the mouth and 1'4" at the shoulder (J Anderson 1888). According to W M Chrystal (1903), Roman coins (also in NMAS) were found here.

D Christison 1906; O G S Crawford 1949

A mediaeval homestead moat situated in low marshy ground in Flanders Moss; as described and planned by Christison.

There is no record of the Roman coins in the NMAS.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 26 September 1968

This site is listed in an Atlas of Scottish History (McNeill and MacQueen 1996) as a moated site.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) September 1997.