Archaeology Notes

Event ID 874955

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08SW 10.00 00320 81010

(NT 00320 81010) Roman Camp (R) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1971)

NT08SW 10.01 NT 0039 8107 Trial Excavation

For buildings linked georaphically with this camp, see:

NT08SW 157 NT 00211 81055 St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School

NT08SW 158 NT 00349 81036 Bents Cottage

A Roman temporary camp is visible on air photographs near Kinglass Park, S of Bo'ness. A ditch 450' long may mark the S side and rounded SW angle of a camp (J K St Joseph 1951). The part of the camp not visible on air photographs was located by probing in 1955. Its size is about 500' square.

(Visible on St Joseph air photographs BD 55, 56, JP 94).

J K St Joseph 1951; J K St Joseph 1955.

There is no trace of this site on the ground.

Visited by OS (B S) 12 March 1967.

No change to previous OS field surveyor. The estimated area of the camp is mainly under housing; the visible portion on air photographs being within the lawned grounds of a school.

Visited by OS (J R L) 15 April 1980.

Scheduled as 'Bents Cottage, Roman temporary camp 40m SW, 75mSW & 75m NE of... the buried remains of a Roman temporary camp visible as the cropmarks of its defensive ditches on oblique aerial photographs. The majority of the camp lies within the grounds of St Mary's Primary School, Bo'ness, with further remains lying to the NNE in Kinglass Park and in amenity parkland immedieately adjacent.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 June 2010.