Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710772

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08SW 12 0166 8067

For possible souterrain within the area of this camp, see NT08SW 91.

NT 016 807. At Muirhouses a small Roman temporary camp has been identified. The N side, about 425ft long with a central gate, a similar length on both E and W sides, and the two rounded northern angles, showed as faint lines in a cereal crop.

(Visible on CUCAP air photograph ACC 94).

J K St Joseph 1961.

NT 0166 8067. There is nothing visible of this camp on the ground.

Site surveyed at 1:2500 scale from air photograph.

Visited by OS (B S) 12 March 1974.

Additional aerial photographs taken by the RCAHMS in 1979.

(RCAHMS WL 2015-17).

Information from OS Archaeology Branch records [1979].

Scheduled as 'Antonine Wall, Roman temporary camp 105m NNW of Holland Cottage... the buried remains of a Roman temporary camp, visible on oblique aerial photographs as cropmarks of its perimeter ditch.'

[Dated to mid-2nd century AD, and associated with the construction of the Antonine Wall and of Carriden fort (NT08SW 7.00)].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 November 2010.