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Clydebank, Duntocher, 'roman Hills'
Mound(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Clydebank, Duntocher, 'roman Hills'
Classification Mound(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 43269
Site Number NS47SE 16
NGR NS 4930 7341
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43269
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Old Kilpatrick (Clydebank)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydebank
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS47SE 16 4930 7341 to 4924 7343.
Two earthen mounds published but unnamed at NS 4930 7341 (A) and NS 4924 7343 (B) are known locally as the 'Roman Hills'.
They were described by the original surveyor, on local advice, as tumuli; but a note in the Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] describes them as natural. The surveyor says that one of them was excavated about 1847 by members of the Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh, who found nothing.
Name Book 1860; OS 6" map (1919)
Mound 'B' is certainly natural, typical of many knolls in the locality. Mound 'A' would also appear to be natural, but it is motte-like in appearance, being regular and conical in shape and flat-topped. It measures over all 50.0m in diameter and is 13.0m in diameter across
the top, and 7.5m in height. There is no trace of a ditch.
The name 'Roman Hills' could not be verified.
Visited by OS (EGC) 1 September 1966
NS 493 734. A mound of oval base measuring approximately 170 by 130ft lies 730 yds N of the Roman fort (NS47SE 12). There is a report of some small finds being made but their nature and present whereabouts are unknown.
A Hunter 1967
Two mounds as described by OS (EGC).
Visited by OS (MJF) 11 November 1980.
Desk Based Assessment (2012)
CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook an assessment of the cultural heritage implications of the proposed route of a replacement overhead line (XF Route) from Neilston, Renfrewshire to Windyhill, East Dunbartonshire.
Although 109 cultural heritage features were identified by the desk-based assessment of the 250m buffer around the proposed route of the replacement XF overhead line, very few of these lie along the route of the line, or in immediate vicinity of the location of any of the towers.
The overhead line replacement project has been assessed against the cultural heritage baseline. Taking into account the construction methodology to be employed and agreed mitigation strategy, it is considered that the development conforms to Local and National Policy relating to the cultural heritage resource.
Funder: Iberdrola
CFA Archaeology Ltd
