Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729202

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX89NE 4 8687 9779

The site is visible on aerial photographs.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Cropmarks reveal three sides of a Roman Temporary Camp, measuring about 76m by 61m wth three visible gates each guarded by a tutulum; the fourth side of the camp is obscured by trees. Excavation showed the ditch to be 3m wide and 2m deep.

J Clarke and A B Webster 1954

The intersection of this camp with enclosure NX89NE 60 was excavated in 1990. This showed that the two were not associated. The lower fill of the ditch of this camp was a fine mottled sandy deposit, quite unlike any other deposits on the site. This may represent redeposited turf from an internal bank.

D Johnston 1990b.

Cropmarks of a square, double ditched Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure (NX89NE 59), a Roman temporary camp (NX89NE 4) and another sub-rectangular enclosure (NX89NE 60) were excavated in advance of road building. All the monuments were plough damaged. The primary fill of the Roman camp ditch was redeposited turf. A group of internal postholes was rick in charred barley and wheat. The third and earliest enclosure was defended by a ditch and palisade; the temporary camp re-used part of its ditch. An oven found within the third enclosure was probably associated with the temporary camp.

D A Johnston, 1994