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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 727108
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/727108
NY06NW 5 02457 66692
(NY 0244 6669) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Fort, measuring 210' by 180' within two much worn ramparts, now planted with trees. Truckell notes in 1948 suggestions of a signal station built on to the rampart of the Wardlaw Iron Age fort, and Wardlaw is listed by Hewison as a 15th century beacon height.
RCAHMS 1920; R W Feachem 1963; A E Truckell 1950; J K Hewison 1912.
This fort crowns the terminal feature of the ridge running SSE from Dumfries between the River Nith and the Lochar Moss. It measures 210 ft (64m) by 180 ft (54.8m) within two much worn ramparts, and has been planted with trees. Its interest lies in its situation, commanding the narrowing Solway Firth, and in the presence of a Roman fort (sic: NY06NW 4), now ploughed out almost to obliteration, only a few yards to the N.
R W Feachem 1963.
The remains of this fort are as described above. There are no traces of the possible signal station built on to the rampart at NY 0244 6672, the highest part of the fort. Mr A E Truckell has confirmed the location, but states that the site is only conjectural at present.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 August 1965
