Archaeology Notes

Event ID 707250

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS88SE 66 8530 8160.

The Roman temporary camp visible on RCAHMS air photographs lies on level ground against very steep W-facing slopes which fall to the floodplain of the River Carron.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS 25 March 1980.

Another camp shares roughly the same position as the first camp, overlapping its S side; about 185m of the E side and 115m of the S side are known, together with the rounded SE angle. An external clavicula is faintly discernible at the N end of the visible portion of the E side, immediately to the S of its intersection with the Stracathro camp. Attempts to investigate the relationship between the two camps were unfortunately frustrated by the presence of what appeared to be later rubbish-disposal pits, which had severely disturbed the traces of the ditch in this sector.

G S Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987