Publication Account

Date 17 December 2011

Event ID 922032

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/922032

This camp, situated on level ground on the north side of the Montrose Basin, was first discovered by St Joseph from the air through cropmarks in 1970 (1973: 225). It measures about 185m from NN W to SSE by around 160m transversely, enclosing 2.8ha (7 acres). An entrance gap protected by a titulus is visible towards the south end of the ENE side, and there is a corresponding break in the opposite side.

St Joseph placed trenches on the SSE and WSW sides in 1970, recording that the ditch was 2.3m wide and 1.2m deep. A small piece of samian recovered from these excavations was dated to ad 70–90 (1973: 225). Further excavations were made by Rogers in 1990, in advance of the replacement of a gas main alongside the road. These recorded that the ditch was V-shaped, and measured up to 1.5m wide and about 1m deep. The excavators noted that the ditch had silted rapidly (Rogers 1993: 287–8).

R H Jones