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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 707332
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/707332
NS87NE 13 centred 8594 7946.
NS 859 794. There is a Roman temporary camp at Tamfourhill.
Information from RCAHMS, letter dated 11 October 1977.
RCAHMS APs (flown in 1977) show cropmarks of the almost entire circuit of a Roman temporary camp. It measures about 200m N-S by 140m. E-W, and there are well defined entrances in the N and S arms.
There is no surface trace of this camp on a gently undulating plateau under light pasture.
Surveyed at 1:2500 and 1:1250.
Visited by OS (JRL), 25 April 1980.
Possible labour camp for wall construction. Measures about 185m from N to S by 150m transversely, and about 2.8ha in area.
G Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987.
NS 85 79 Archaeological investigations were undertaken prior to construction works associated with the Falkirk Millennium Link Project.
NS 8595 7955 A putative tutulus to Tamfourhill Roman temporary camp (NMRS NS87NE 13). As the feature was unaffected by canal construction works, it was not excavated.
Sponsor: Morrison Construction Ltd.
J Gooder and A Duffy 2000.
Scheduled as 'Station House, Roman temporary camp 200m SE of... the buried remains of a Roman temporary camp...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 June 2010.
