Archaeology Notes

Event ID 706252

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS77SW 6 7139 7189

NS 713 718. Roman Fort (Site), Mollins: This fort occupies the W end of a low ridge immediately NE of Mollins farmhouse, some 4 km S of the Antonine Wall.

First identified from cropmarks, it measures about 64m by 58m over the rampart (0.4 ha); an annexe, roughly half the size of the main enclosure, protected by a single ditch, adjoins the fort on the W. Excavation (W S Hanson and G S Maxwell 1980) indicated that the site was probably built and deliberately destroyed during the later 1st century AD; it may thus have formed part of the chain of praesidia drawn across the isthmus by the governor Julius Agricola.

RCAHMS 1978; 1982; The Scotsman, 10 November 1978

Field under crop when visited; no surface indications.

Visited by OS (MJF) 20 June 1980