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Laurieston
Fortlet (Roman)(Possible), Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Laurieston
Classification Fortlet (Roman)(Possible), Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 47892
Site Number NS97NW 30
NGR NS 9107 7952
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47892
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Falkirk
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Excavation (1 September 2004)
Report - Excavations at 40 Grahamsdyke Street, Laurieston, 2004.
NS97NW 30 9107 7952
NS 9108 7953, during the widening of an access drive, a late 18th-century well was uncovered. This proved to occupy the berm between the ditch and rampart of the Antonine Wall. Also on the berm were three defensive pits. A culvert passed across the Wall base, here made of clay without a stone foundation.
G Bailey 2004
Excavations at 40 Grahamsdyke Street were previously described under NS97NW 140; this record has now been cancelled and merged with this record.
Information from RCAHMS (PM) 3 July 2006.
Excavation (August 2005)
NS97NW 30 NS 9108 7953
Roman fortlet. Excavation in the back garden of the Tam Bain public house showed that the drain found in 2004, running S from a culvert through the Antonine Wall, was 20m long. A little further on the same alignment were two post-holes that can be identified as the S gate of a Wall fortlet. The Roman levels were badly truncated, but it was shown that the drain was cut into a turf platform that covered an earlier road connecting the forts of Falkirk and Mumrills.
Sponsors: Falkirk Museum, Falkirk Local History Society, Edinburgh Field Studies.
G Bailey 2005
