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Inchtuthil

Drain(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown), Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Military Camp (Roman), Vallum (Roman)

Site Name Inchtuthil

Classification Drain(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown), Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Military Camp (Roman), Vallum (Roman)

Alternative Name(s) Inchtuthil Plateau

Canmore ID 79581

Site Number NO13NW 5.09

NGR NO 1172 3958

NGR Description From NO 1172 3958 to NO 1178 3927

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Caputh
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes (9 December 1992)

NO13NW 5.09 from 1172 3958 to 1178 3927.

A masking outwork, similar in most respects to the Western Vallum (NO13NW 5.03) but now detectable only as a cropmark, traverses the SW portion of the plateau, cutting through the W segment of the large labour camp (NO13NW 5.01) some 300m to the SW of the Vallum. About 300m of its course has been recorded, indicating a slight change of alignment to allow it to pass through the SW gate of the larger camp. The behaviour of the earthwork ditch at this point, as well as its relationship to the reduced camp's W angle suggests strongly that it was originally accompanied by a rampart lying immediately to the NE. Its purpose was probably the same as that of the Western Vallum, to provide additional protection to the builders of the fortress, but its proximity to the W angle of the reduced camp (much closer than on the publication plan) makes it less easy to accept the suggestion (by Pitts and St Joseph) that it was contemporary with that phase of the camp. It seems more likely to have been an additional outwork, supplementing the Vallum when both camps had been levelled; in its use of existing defences and in its purpose it should be compared with the recently-recorded outwork at Malling, Central Region. (NN50SE 16 and NS59NE 13).

Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 9 December 1992.

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