Watching Brief

Date 1994

Event ID 755460

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NS97NW 46.03 924 795.

In September 1994 a four-day watching brief was carried out during the excavation of new drainage channels associated with the Laurieston by-pass at Beancross where these crossed the scheduled area associated with the Antonine Wall. Part of a post-medieval stone culvert was found running towards the Roman ditch. This would have taken effluent from Beancross village and deposited it in the ditch. A layer of peat running W to E delineated the northern edge of the upcast mound associated with the digging of that ditch. The deposits generally indicated the waterlogged nature of the area since the Roman period. No Roman levels were encountered.

Sponsor: Central Consultancy (CRC).

G B Bailey 1994e.