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Fala Mill

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Temporary Camp (Roman)

Site Name Fala Mill

Classification Temporary Camp (Roman)

Alternative Name(s) Fala

Canmore ID 54815

Site Number NT46SW 28

NGR NT 43002 61963

NGR Description NT centred 43002 61963

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial photograph of Fala Dam, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of a Roman temporary camp.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Midlothian
  • Parish Crichton
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Midlothian
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT46SW 28 centred NT 43002 61963

A small Roman camp was observed from the air in 1977 by CUCAP about 800m E of Dere Street, and to the NW of Fala, in Midlothian, on a tongue of land that slopes gently SSE from a crest line near the NW side of the camp. The whole of the short NE side, nearly a third of the SW side, most of the NW, together with a quarter of the NE, and the rounded S, W and N angles have been recorded so far. There is a difference of about 9 degrees in the alignment of the SE and NW sides. The axial dimensions are about 205m by 132m, an area of 2.8 ha (6.7 acres).

G S Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987.

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Note (1988)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Midlothian (Prehistoric to Early Historic)

Fala Mill, Temporary Camp NT 431 619 NT46SW 28

The S corner and 120m of the SE side of a temporary camp have been identified from cropmarks 150m N of Fala Mill.

RCAHMS 1988

Further Details

Publication Account (17 December 2011)

The camp at Fala Mill was discovered from the air by Cambridge University in 1977 (Maxwell and Wilson 1987: 38). It lies about 1km north-west of the village of Fala and some 800m east of the modern A68, the presumed line of Roman Dere Street at this point. It lies on fairly level ground that slopes gently to the south-east towards the Fala Dam Burn. Parts of all four sides have been recorded through cropmarks, and it measures about 248m from north-west to south-east by 136m transversely, enclosing and area of some 3.3ha (8.1 acres). No entrances are known

R H Jones

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