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Middlebie Hill
Temporary Camp(S) (Roman)
Site Name Middlebie Hill
Classification Temporary Camp(S) (Roman)
Canmore ID 67088
Site Number NY27NW 3
NGR NY 20791 76472
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67088
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Middlebie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY27NW 3 2080 7640 to 2098 7647
(Name NY 2098 7647) Roman Camp (R) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
This Roman temporary camp is visible on APs, and a short stretch of its NW side, the NE side of some 1250ft, a rounded angle and about 1100ft of the SE side with a gate and tutulus has been plotted.
(Information from J K St Joseph 1949)
J K St Joseph 1951; 1955; 1965
Centred NY 208 765. No trace of this Roman camp can be seen on the ground. The site lies on the NE slopes of Middlebie Hill.
Surveyed at 25" from St Joseph AP/ground control.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 October 1967
NY 208 764. A second temporary camp identified within the already known camp. Parts of the south and east sides and the SE angle recorded.
J K St Joseph 1973.
Note (1997)
NY 208 764 NY27NW 3
Listed as temporary camps.
RCAHMS 1997.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (19 October 2012)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 19 October 2012.
Publication Account
These two camps lie astride Middlebie Hill close to the Annandale Roman road and about 1.5km north-west of the fort and camps at Birrens. Camp I was discovered in 1949 by St Joseph from the air as a cropmark; camp II, which lies within the first, was discovered several years later, in 1966 (St Joseph 1973: 217). Camp I measures 503m from north-east to south-west by 345m transversely and enclosed almost 17.3ha (nearly 43 acres). An entrance gap protected by a titulus is visible on its south-east side, towards the north-eastern end. The second camp lies at an oblique angle to the first, but only 290m of the SSE side, the eastern corner angle and about 45m of the ENE side have been recorded so it is not known if and where it intersects its neighbour. No clear entrances are known.
R H Jones.
