Archaeology Notes

Event ID 804503

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS87NW 4.01 8346 7980

NS 8379 7980 and NS 8346 7980. There are two 'expansions' projecting from the S face of the Antonine Wall rampart at Bonnyside. When visited in 1957, they were roughly semi-circular on plan, measuring about 10.0m E-W at the rampart face by 7.0m N-S, with a maximum height of 1.2m.

Considerations of siting and the discovery of burnt deposits of wood, turfwork and Roman pottery in the immediate vicinity of the eastern expansion indicate that they were beacon stances, communicating with the area N of the Wall.

Visited by OS (JLD) 24 January 1957.

K A Steer 1959; RCAHMS 1963, visited 1957.

No change.

Visited by OS (MJF) 20 November 1980