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Colliery (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Cropmark (Period Unknown)

Site Name Drum

Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Cropmark (Period Unknown)

Canmore ID 110264

Site Number NT08SW 108

NGR NT 0150 8083

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Muirhouses and Drum, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain. The cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits are visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.
Muirhouses and Drum, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain. The cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits are visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.Muirhouses and Drum, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain. The cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits are visible in the bottom half of the photograph.Drum and Muirhouses, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits. The cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain are visible in the top half of the photograph.Drum and Muirhouses, oblique aerial view, taken from the S, centred on the cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits. The cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain are visible in the bottm half of the photograph.Drum and Muirhouses, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of an enclosure and possible coal pits. The cropmarks of a Roman Temporary Camp and possible souterrain are visible in the right half of the photograph.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Falkirk
  • Parish Bo'ness And Carriden
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Falkirk
  • Former County West Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT08SW 108 0150 8083

NT 0155 8080 (centre). During February 1996 trial trenching was undertaken in order to evaluate the suitability for scheduling of three cropmarks located 100m to the NW of Muirhouses Roman temporary camp (NT 0165 8070). The largest of the three (cropmark 1; NT08SW 89) was presumed to be a prehistoric ditched enclosure, the second a possible prehistoric roundhouse (cropmark 2; NT08SW 24), and the third possibly a disused coal pit or shaft (cropmark 3). Cropmarks 1 and 2 were located by trial trenches.

Cropmark 3, indistinct and visible on only one aerial photograph as a dark 'spot' measuring c 5-8m in diameter, may have been an old coal pit or shaft. Three trial trenches were excavated in order to locate this feature, but without success.

A R Rees 1996

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