Castledykes, Eastern Annexes
Enclosure(S) (Roman), Fort Annexe(S) (Roman)
Site Name Castledykes, Eastern Annexes
Classification Enclosure(S) (Roman), Fort Annexe(S) (Roman)
Canmore ID 79356
Site Number NS94SW 7.07
NGR NS 93120 44240
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79356
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carstairs
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS94SW 7.07 93120 44240
After a brief period of abandonment at some time in the decade AD 150-160, the fort was reoccupied wth only minor alterations to the defences and a certain amount of internal reconstruction or repair.... It may have been now that the subrectangular ditched enclosure (F) that straddles the road 60 m E of the fort was physically linked to it as an annexe (also see NX94SW 7.01). The enclosure was constructed at some time in the Antonine period, and its wide entrances suggest that it originally served only a temporary purpose, possibly to accommodate the labour force engaged in building the Antonine fort. Subsequently, however, it seems to have been used as an extramural settlement or working-area, for its W ditch was deliberately filled and the N side continued westwards, as if to link up with the main defences; extensive disturbance of the ground made it impossible to confirm that there had been a corresponding westward extension of the S side. The data and purpose of the line of ditch 'G' shown by crop-marks to intersect the S side of the enclosure, were not determined by the excavation.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1975
Inspection of aerial photographs taken in 1984 suggests a possible eastward extension of the eastern annexe, which would roughly double its area. (Information from Gordon Maxwell)
S S Frere 1988
This site is part of the complex at Castledykes - see also NS94SW 7.00- 7.06, 7.08, 7.09 and 16. NS94SW 7.00 and NS94SW 7.01 give air photograph references and a plan.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (29 July 1994)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
