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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 707023
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/707023
NS87NE 7 8627 7978
See also NS87NE 52.
(NS 8627 7978) Roman Fortlet (R) (site of)
OS 1:1250map, (1969).
A Roman fortlet, adjoining the south side of the Antonine Wall where the road to Camelon passed through, was discovered in 1894 by M Buchanan. He uncovered parts of the east and south ramparts, these having a stone foundation about 15' broad, and also identified the gateway through the Wall. The site of the fortlet is occupied by the garden of Watling Lodge (G Macdonald 1934).
Excavations made in 1972-4 located the single outer ditch, 2.8m wide and some 1.0m deep, on the west, south, and east sides. This showed the fortlet to measure approximately 18.5m E-W by 15.5m within the rampart, the early MacDonald plan being incorrect (D J Breeze 1972; D R Wilson 1975).
D J Breeze 1975.
Plans, finds and photographs of the 1972-4 excavations are with the National Monuments Record.
DES (RCAHMS) 1979.
There is no surface trace of the fortlet (or the 1972-4 excavations) within the garden area of Watling Lodge.
Visited by OS (JRL) 25 April 1980.
In 1986, three trenches were dug over the area of the road and S defences of the fortlet.
L J F Keppie et al 1995.
(Schedule no. 8453). Scheduled as Antonine Wall, Watling Lodge fortlet.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 March 2005.
