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Broadlea
Temporary Camp (Roman)
Site Name Broadlea
Classification Temporary Camp (Roman)
Canmore ID 67149
Site Number NY27SW 2
NGR NY 21813 74809
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67149
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Middlebie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY27SW 2 2178 7481
See also NY27SW 3.
(Name: NY 2186 7473) ROMAN CAMPS (R) (Sites of)
OS 6" map (1957)
(NY 2181 7482) Crop mark of Roman camp: for other camp see NY27SW 3.
Information from J K St Joseph 3 February 1954.
There are no surface remains of this camp, which is partly situated on the haugh of the Main Water, at NY 2178 7481.
Surveyed from St Joseph AP 71P.
Visited by OS (RD) 19 October 1967.
Note (1997)
NY 2178 7481 NY27SW 2
Listed as temporary camp.
RCAHMS 1997.
Publication Account (17 December 2011)
The two camps at Broadlea lie close to the fort and camps at Birrens. Camp I was first recorded in the 1940s by St Joseph as cropmarks from the air. It measures 296m from WSW to ENE by at least 127m, but its north side has not been recorded from the air (and may be obscured by the present-day course of the Mein Water and the railway from Carlisle to Lockerbie). At least 4.8ha (almost 12 acres) is known to be enclosed, and there is space for a camp of some 7.3ha (18 acres) here. An entrance gap is visible close to the centre of the south side, but no additional entrance protection is recorded.
Camp II lies immediately to the south of camp I and was recorded as cropmarks from the air in 1945 by St Joseph. It measures 120m from north-west to south-east by at least 103m, but the railway has destroyed its eastern side. It enclosed at least 1.3ha (3 acres) and probably around 1.8ha (4.5 acres). A titulus is visible on the south-east side, and a probable entrance gap on the south-west side. The south-west side of the camp appears to be routed through the central area of a Neolithic henge, with a gap marking the camp gate placed at one entrance to the henge and the camp corner placed at the other (Atkinson 1952: 62–3). This may indicate that the henge was still an upstanding earthwork at the time.
R H Jones 2011
Watching Brief (19 March 2012 - 4 September 2012)
Watching brief by GUARD Archaeology Limited at Broadlea near Kirtlebridge on the Kirtlebridge Marquess SPS Pipeline.
Funder: Scottish Water Solutions
GUARD Archaeology Limited
Aerial Photographic Transcription (8 November 2012)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 8 November 2012.
