Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709251

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS97NW 11 94710 79042

(NS 94710 79042) Roman Camp (R) (site of) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1969).

See also NS97NW 13 and NS97NW 59.

Location formerly entered as NS 947 789.

The possible SE side and rounded SW angle of a temporary camp, shown on 1951 AP's (J K St Joseph 1951), could not be probed by RCAHMS who described it as an indeterminate earthwork with no surface trace.

Later 1964 APs, show what St Joseph described as the remaining NE, SE and SW sides of a small camp c.275ft square; the 1951 ditch apparently being re-interpreted as the NW side (J K St Joseph 1965).

Examination of the available St Joseph APs indicates that the 1951 and 1964 APs do not show parts of a single camp, and that the probable explanation, on available evidence, is that the 1951 ditch is the SE arm of a sizeable camp to which the 1964 ditches form a small annexe approximately of 0.8 hectares. Such an arrangement would be similar in area to the nearby camp and annexe at Little Kerse (NS97NW 12).

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955.

No surface trace; the area is now part of a golf course and has been turfed and landscaped.

Plotted on 1:2500 maps from APs.

Visited by OS (JRL) 24 February 1981.

Scheduled (with enclosure NS97NW 59) as 'Antonine Wall, The Bungalow, Roman camp 380m W of... the buried remains of a Roman temporary camp, visible as cropmarks, as well as a possible Iron Age enclosure and remains of trenches dug during World War Two. The camp lies wholly within Grangemouth Golf Course and occupies an area of relatively flat ground, with an annexe (NS97NW 59) on the S side of the camp situated on a steep slope. The camp lies around 190m E of Millhall Reservoir (NS97NW 146). Dating to the mid-second century AD, the camp is associated with the construction of the Antonine Wall, situated around 390m to the N. The W side of the camp is entirely visible, measuring 190m in length, and has rounded corners visible at its NW and SW angles. Approxcimately 140m of the S side of the camp is visible and a small rectangular annexe. Around 50m of the N ditch is visible. On the W and S sides of the camp, where the cropmarks are most clearly defined, the ditch is 2.5-3m wide. Immediately to the SW of the camp is a ring-ditch, [which is] interpreted as an Iron-Age enclosure or structure.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 November 2009.