Archaeology Notes

Event ID 827941

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS47SE 83.04 from NS 4603 7332 to NS 4954 7260

NS 4603 7332 to NS 4609 7327 Military Way leaving the N gate of fort (NS47SE 8) was established by excavations of 1931 (Macdonald 1932).

NS 4707 7314 Military Way was said to have been found c1836 when clearing road here (ONB 1860).

NS 4804 7296 The extant of the Military Way E of Carleith (Horsley 1732; Gordon 1726)

NS 4806 7299 During ploughing in 1971, metalled ways were observed including a supposed Military Way by-pass (Price 1971).

The possible Military Way exposures at NS 4806 7299 await further corroboration.

NS 4954 7260 Macdonald argues for a Military Way by-pass, owing to the gradient, some distance to the S and W of the fort, but refers to 18th century descriptions that the Way proper could be plainly seen approaching the E gate and then turning to the left in order to pass the S front. At the SW corner it turned to the right again and began to make its way downhill. Its condition was...'very grand'. (Macdonald 1934).

Information from OS 1980

A Gordon 1726; J Horsley 1732; G Macdonald 1932, 1934; ONB 1860; E J Price 1971

(formerly described under NS87SE 87.03) NS c. 490 728

The cambered cobbling of the Military Way, surviving to a width of c.3.5 m and bonded in gravelly sand and grey clay, was recorded during excavations at St Mary's Primary School, Duntocher. A Roman pot-sherd was found within the sand and clay bonding material.

L J F Keppie 2000