Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729557

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX98SW 10 9331 8485

See also NX98SW 35.

(Centred: NX 9331 8485) Camp (R) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1948)

Two almost exactly superimposed Flavian forts, each with an annexe attached to its N rampart, were revealed by air photography, and subsequently excavated.

The earlier, and smaller of the two, about 600' square, was succeeded by the other, about 600 by 770', without any apparent break in the occupation of the site.

The later fort had another annexe on the SE, and a broad ditch extending from the S angle down a steep slope, below the fort, and may have enclosed another annexe on the SW side. Both forts are of a size to have held cavalry units and the later fort may have quartered the Ala Petriana.

J K St Joseph 1951, 1955; I A Richmond and J K St Joseph 1957; E Birley 1958

There are no surface indications of these sites, fields all having been cultivated. The finds from the excavations are on display in Dumfries Museum.

Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964

Photographed by the RCAHMS 1984 and 1988.

(Undated) information in NMRS.