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Wooden Home Farm
Temporary Camp (Roman)
Site Name Wooden Home Farm
Classification Temporary Camp (Roman)
Canmore ID 58444
Site Number NT73SW 40
NGR NT 7417 3322
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/58444
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Kelso
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
In 1976 aerial photographs showed cropmarks associated with a possible Roman Temporary camp in fields to the east of Wooden Home Farm. They revealed two sections of ditch and a rounded corner.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NT73SW 40 centred 741 338.
NT 742 333. A Roman temporary camp has been discovered at Wooden Home Farm.
Information in letter from K S Steer to OS, 23 October 1976.
On careful examination of the air photographs taken by the RCAHMS over the past two years, this camp must be considered doubtful. Two straight lengths of ditch and a rather sharply rounded angle are faintly visible, but there are other crop-marks in the field. It may be a camp, but further photographs are required for certain identification.
Transcript amendments to RB.4, J K St Joseph 8 April 1978.
'A section was cut through the ditch of the SW side of a temporary camp revealed as cropmarks in air photographs. The ditch proved to be 3.75m wide by c 1m deep, and to have filled with natural silt. The camp appears to measure approximately 450m from NE to SW by at least 365m transversely.'
G S Maxwell 1982.
Probable base for Agricolan reconnaissance troops. Camp measures about 450m by between 320 and 365m, for a topographically-determined maximum area of about 16 ha.
G S Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987.
Publication Account (17 December 2011)
Stretches of the large camp at Wooden Home Farm have been recorded through cropmarks from the air since 1976 (Maxwell and Wilson 1987: 32), lying on the south side of the River Tweed east of Kelso. In the 1980s the camp was believed to measure some 450m by 365m, enclosing about 16ha (Maxwell and Wilson 1987: 32), but air photographs taken by RCAHMS in 1996 revealed the north corner and additional stretches of the northeast and north-west sides beyond the dismantled railway at Wooden Mill, and a further stretch of the north east side adjacent to a double-ditched prehistoric fort near the Mellen Dean. These confirmed the large size of the camp, which measures 895m from north-west to southeast by 600m transversely, enclosing around 55.3ha (just over 136 acres). An entrance gap with titulus is visible in the centre of the south-east side. Excavations by Maxwell in 1982 on the south-west side recorded a ditch which measured about 3.75m wide and 1m deep (Maxwell 1982b: 3).
R H Jones.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
