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Tibbermore
Rectilinear Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Tibbermore
Classification Rectilinear Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) East Mid Lamberkine; East Mid Lamberkin
Canmore ID 26858
Site Number NO02SE 10
NGR NO 0741 2259
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26858
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Aberdalgie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 10 0741 2259.
(NO 0741 2259) A small rectangular enclosure, east of Lamberkine quarry, may be a temporary Roman camp. The north side is 195ft long, and 180ft of the west (? east) side remains to the north of the main road. If the site is Roman, it may be a pointer to the lost sector of the Roman road.
J K St Joseph 1955.
There is nothing to be seen on the ground. The area was under pasture at the time of the visit.
Visited by OS (W D J) 28 October 1965.
Further investigation has shown that this site is not a Roman temporary camp.
Information contained in letter from J K St Joseph to OS 7 December 1976
Classified in CUCAP catalogue as 'Roman Temporary camp'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), January 1990.
(NO 074 226. East Mid Lamberkine, Aberdalgie parish: Roman temporary camp). This enclosure was photographed as a cropmark from the air by pilots at Perth Aerodrome. An external clavicula gateway was visible on the northern length of ditch, close to its eastern end, suggesting that this is a small Roman temporary camp. A narrow gateway was visible in the western ditch, with no external clavicula or titulum visible. Both the western and eastern ditches are cut by the A9, which has destroyed perhaps a quarter of the camp. (But see Dr St Joseph, supra.)
M D King 1992.
NO 074 225 A 1.02 acre (0.4ha) rectilinear enclosure has long been known from the air on the site (NMRS NO02SE 10), partially destroyed by the A9, and had once been thought to be a small Roman temporary camp but this identification has lost favour in recent years despite the fact that an outward turning clavicula is visible at the northern gate. A resistivity survey confirmed this feature, however, and shows signs of an answering clavicula on the opposite side of the gate, whilst a trial trench revealed a V-shaped ditch 3.64m wide and 1.12m deep cut into very hard boulder clay. Carbonised material from the ditch bottom will be subjected to radiocarbon dating, but the site does now appear more likely to be Roman and, if so, it would be the smallest temporary camp currently known N of the Antonine Wall.
Sponsor: Roman Gask Project.
D J Woolliscroft 1999
