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Inchgarvie House
Building (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Coin(S) (Roman), Patera (Roman), Unidentified Pottery (Roman)
Site Name Inchgarvie House
Classification Building (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Coin(S) (Roman), Patera (Roman), Unidentified Pottery (Roman)
Alternative Name(s) Springfield
Canmore ID 50557
Site Number NT17NW 2
NGR NT 1142 7860
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50557
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Dalmeny
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County West Lothian
NT17NW 2 1142 7860
(NT 1142 7860) Springfield (NAT)
on Site of Roman Watch Tower (R)
OS 6" map (1855).
Inchgarvie House (NAT)
Roman Coins & Pottery found (NAT)
OS 6" map (1968).
See also NT17NW 4.
Nearly a mile to the west of the monastery at Queensferry, upon a high sea bank, where a farmhouse now stands, there were, about forty or fifty years since, considerable ruins of probably an old Roman speculatorium, consisting of a large carved window, a square pillar, and a very considerable quantity of hewn stones, which it is said were carried to Dunkirk. There were found several silver medals of Marcus Antoninus, with a victory on the reverse; also, the carved handle of a copper vessel, and the bottom of an earthen urn, with the word 'adjecti', the rest obliterated.
Statistical Account 1791.
The two latter objects are listed by Miss Robertson as a patera handle and the base of a samian bowl, both 2nd century; they are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
A S Robertson 1970
The authority for the entry on the OS map of 1855 was the Statistical Account (OSA). There were no traces of buiding to be seen in 1926, and the farmer who worked the ground stated that he had never noticed any traces of occupation. The description of the building would indicate a medieval date, but the other relics suggest inhabitation of some kind during the Roman period.
Name Book 1855; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1926
The site is built upon, and no evidence of Roman or medieval works was encountered during investigation.
(See also NT17NW 4)
Visited by OS (JLD), 22 January 1953.
