Publication Account

Date 17 December 2011

Event ID 923496

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923496

East of the fort and camps at Newstead lies a further two-phase camp, recorded through aerial and geophysical survey. St Joseph first recorded part of this camp in 1991 and put small trenches through its WSW and SSE sides (Keppie 1994: 261). However, given that he stated its size to be about 1.62ha it seems likely that he had identified elements of the smaller camp (II) which represents a reduction of the larger one (I), identified by Bradford University during geophysical survey as part of a project centred on the Newstead area (Keppie 1996a: 403–4). Camp I, the larger, measures 225m from ENE to WSW by 130m and enclosed 3.1ha (7.7 acres). This was reduced on its ENE side to 180m to enclose 2.5ha (6 acres). There is a possible entrance gap on the shared WSW side of the two camps, and a further linear cropmark from the Newstead complex (Newstead VI, see possible camps) runs through this entrance. Excavations on the ditch by St Joseph recorded that it was 0.83m deep on the west side and 1.44m deep on the south; a fragment of pottery was recorded but no more information was provided about this (Keppie 1994: 261). Another linear cropmark running obliquely through the eastern part of the camps may also relate to part of the ‘Great Camps’ complex to the west.

R H Jones.