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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 841916
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/841916
NX76SW 29 7455 6499 to 7345 6470. RX 14.
See also NX76SW 2.
The main road from the E skirts the defences of the annexe on the N side of the Antonine fort at Glenlochar, and heads for the area NX 734 646 where the original Flavian fort is supposed to lie. Large portions of it are obscured by the gardens of Glenlochar House.
Information from Dr J K St Joseph to Ordnance Survey, 1949; I A Richmond and J K St Joseph 1953.
The course of the road is traceable as a slight raised mound, c. 10m wide in places from NX 7347 6470 to NX 7388 6481. No other traces could be found, either to NE, or SW, towards Gatehouse of Fleet.
Visited by OS (RD), 31 August 1968.
There is no obvious course of the alleged Roman road to Glenlochar. No trace of the road was found on the ground or on aerial photographs.
Visited by OS (JP), 20 March 1975.
The alleged Roman road may have entered the Roman fort (NX76SW 2) at Glenlochar at its N annexe.
(Undated) information from RCAHMS.
Scheduled (with NX76SW 2-6, 23 and 24) as 'Glenlochar, Roman fort, annexe, road, camps and barrows 50m E of Montford....'.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2011.
