Scheduled Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates: •
Tuesday 3rd December 11:00-15:00
During these times, some services may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Inverquharity
Temporary Camp (Roman)
Site Name Inverquharity
Classification Temporary Camp (Roman)
Canmore ID 33728
Site Number NO45NW 24
NGR NO 40660 58000
NGR Description Centred NO 40660 58000
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33728
- Council Angus
- Parish Kirriemuir
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO45NW 24 centred NO 40660 58000
RCAHMS aerial photographs reveal a camp with Stracathro-type gates E of the fort described on NO45NW 10. The ditch on the E side was found to be V-shaped, 1.2m wide at the top of the loose gravel subsoil and 0.9m deep. The virtual absence of primary silt suggested that it had been soon backfilled. The camp, much of whose N side may have been destroyed by erosion, measures c.145m E-W by at least 162m, giving an area of c.2.3 ha (5.7 acres). (Work directed by G S Maxwell and J K St Joseph, who provided information.)
S S Frere 1985.
2.4ha camp, with Stracathro-type gates and of Flavian period.
G S Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (15 May 2002 - 15 October 2002)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Note (17 December)
The camp at Inverquharity was first hinted at through cropmarks on air photographs taken by RCAHMS in 1983, and confirmed the following year (Frere 1984: 274; Frere 1985a: 263). It lies on a small promontory overlooking the confluence of the Prosen Water and the River South Esk, with the Quharity Burn running along the south side of the promontory; a small Roman fort lies 80m to the west. Sibbald had recorded that Severus had camps as far as ‘Innercaritie . . . where vestiges of some appears’, and this may refer to the fort or camp at Inverquharity (1707: 16). Three sides of the camp are known from air photographs, the fourth largely lost through erosion to the north where the ground drops away steeply to the rivers, although the north-west corner was recorded through resistivity survey in 2002 (Woolliscroft 2002b). The camp measures about 150m from ENE to WSW by 136m transversely, enclosing some 2.35ha (almost 6 acres). Stracathro-type gates are recorded in the three known sides.
Maxwell and St Joseph conducted excavations on the camp in 1984, recording that the ditch on the east side was V-shaped, 1.8m in width and 0.9m in depth (Maxwell 1984b: 35).
R H Jones.
