Archaeology Notes

Event ID 707035

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/707035

NS87NW 9 81040 79000

See also NS87NW 10.

NS 810 790. A Roman temporary camp is situated in the field between Dalnair farmhouse and Cheapside. No traces remain on the ground but the NW side of the camp, including an entrance with a tutulus, the N and W rounded angles, and stretches of the NE and SW sides are visible on air photographs. The camp measures about 400' in width, but its length cannot yet be determined.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1957

No further information. The field is regularly cultivated.

Site surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (MJF) 30 April 1980

Further aerial photographs taken by the RCAHMS in 1980.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

The length of the Antonine Wall (NS87NW 32.00) between Dalnair and Seabegs Wood [NS 8095 7908 to NS 8118 7922] has been scheduled, together with Dalnair temporary camp (NS87NW 9) and Seabegs fortlet (NS87NW 10).

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 February 2005.