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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 707019
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/707019
NS87NE 2 8625 7982.
(NS 8625 7982) Motte (probable)(site of): The artificial mound which formerly stood on the N side of the ditch of the Antonine Wall, immediately W of the entrance through which the Roman road ran to the fort at Camelon was obliterated in 1894 when Watling Lodge was built upon it. It is said (G Macdonald 1934) to have been constructed of earth, and to have been reduced in height by about 6' when the house was built. No record of its precise measurements has been found, but from the appearance of the terrace underlying Watling Lodge its summit area may have been about 70' E-W by 40'. The mound, known locally as Maiden Castle, was probably a motte.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1957
No vestiges of this probable motte remain. The site is contained by Watling Lodge and its ornamental garden.
Visited by OS (JLD) 1 February 1957
