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Publication Account
Date 17 December 2011
Event ID 921526
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/921526
The two camps at Broadlea lie close to the fort and camps at Birrens. Camp I was first recorded in the 1940s by St Joseph as cropmarks from the air. It measures 296m from WSW to ENE by at least 127m, but its north side has not been recorded from the air (and may be obscured by the present-day course of the Mein Water and the railway from Carlisle to Lockerbie). At least 4.8ha (almost 12 acres) is known to be enclosed, and there is space for a camp of some 7.3ha (18 acres) here. An entrance gap is visible close to the centre of the south side, but no additional entrance protection is recorded.
Camp II lies immediately to the south of camp I and was recorded as cropmarks from the air in 1945 by St Joseph. It measures 120m from north-west to south-east by at least 103m, but the railway has destroyed its eastern side. It enclosed at least 1.3ha (3 acres) and probably around 1.8ha (4.5 acres). A titulus is visible on the south-east side, and a probable entrance gap on the south-west side. The south-west side of the camp appears to be routed through the central area of a Neolithic henge, with a gap marking the camp gate placed at one entrance to the henge and the camp corner placed at the other (Atkinson 1952: 62–3). This may indicate that the henge was still an upstanding earthwork at the time.
R H Jones 2011
