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Publication Account
Date 17 December 2011
Event ID 923422
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923422
The forts, fortlet and camp at Milton lie in the upper reaches of the River Annan, close to its confluence with the Evan Water and Moffat Water. The site, recorded by Roy as ‘Tassiesholm’ (1793: Pl. VIII), sits on a low ridge and comprises a Flavian fort of two phases with annexes, and an Antonine fortlet with probably two phases enclosed by a trapezoidal palisaded enclosure (Clarke 1951). To the south of the fortlet lies a small camp (Milton I), and a possible camp may lie under the forts (Milton II, see probable camps below – Clarke 1951: 199). Some 700m north-west of the fort and on the valley floor of the Evan Water, lies a series of large camps at Beattock.
The camp was discovered in 1949 by St Joseph as a cropmark from the air, lying around 300m south of the fort. It measures 174m from ENE to WSW by 138m and enclosed 2.2ha (5.4 acres). Entrance gaps protected by tituli are visible in the WSW, SSE and ENE sides. Two small trenches excavated in 1950 revealed that the ditch was some 2.1m in width, inside which was a 0.9m trench assumed to be for a palisade (Clarke 1951: 214).
R H Jones.
