Archaeology Notes

Event ID 706923

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS87NE 5.00 8556 7981 to 8500 7990

NS87NE 5.01 8556 7981

NS87NE 5.02 8500 7990

(NS 8500 7990) Expansion (R)

(NS 8556 7981) Expansion (R)

OS 25" map (1961)

There are two 'expansions' projecting from the S face of the Antonine Wall rampart at Tentfield. They are to be compared with that at Bonnyside East (NS87NW 4) which was proved by excavation by the RCAHMS to have been a rectangular beacon stance, communicating with the area N of the Wall, its semi-circular shape in 1957 being due to the collapse of weathered turfwork.

The expansion at NS 8500 7990 was barely discernible in 1957, but would seem to be identical with that noted by Roy and represented by him as a small square earthwork, 18' each way, abutting on the S face of the wall.

The other expansion at NS 8556 7981, was roughly semicircular, about 32' E-W at the rampart face by 18' N-S and 3' in height, mutilated on top by a large hole where a tree had been uprooted.

W Roy 1793; K A Steer 1959; RCAHMS 1963, visited 1957.

The badly mutilated remains of the expansion at NS 8500 7990 may still be seen in the form of a roughly semicircular mound, about 8.0m E-W, protruding 7.0m from the rampart, and 1.3m high.

The expansion at NS 8556 7990 is as described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JLD) 29 January 1957

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (JRL) 20 April 1980.