Publication Account

Date 17 December 2011

Event ID 923420

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923420

The camp at Milnquarter lies in a flat area of ground bisected by the Stirling-to-Glasgow railway line, and also by a disused connecting line that ran to an industrial complex just to the north. It lies about 400m south of the Antonine Wall, at a point where the Wall kinks between the fort at Rough Castle and the fortlet at Seabegs Wood. A further fortlet has been postulated in this area (Hanson and Maxwell 1986: 122), but no trace has yet been found. The camp was first recorded by St Joseph in 1953, with further information gleaned from RAF air photographs (Feachem 1958: 330; RCAHMS 1963: 107). All four corners and parts of all four sides of the camp have been recorded through cropmarks, and it measures 168m from north-west to south-east by 138m, enclosing an area of almost 2.3ha (5.6 acres). A titulus is visible in the centre of the north-west side, and Feachem recorded other tituli on the north-east and south-east sides through probing (Feachem 1958: 331–2) thus suggesting that the camp faced north-west towards the Wall.

A small excavation was undertaken in the interior of the camp in 1995 owing to the removal of an electricity tower, but no Roman features were recorded (Dunwell and Finlayson 1995).

R H Jones.