Peel Glen
Fortlet (Roman)(Possible)
Site Name Peel Glen
Classification Fortlet (Roman)(Possible)
Canmore ID 44528
Site Number NS57SW 26
NGR NS 521 725
NGR Description NS c. 521 725
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Dunbartonshire
- Parish New Kilpatrick (Bearsden And Milngavie)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Bearsden And Milngavie
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS57SW 26 c. 521 725.
Horsley notes "the appearance of the ruins of a small fort or castellum" at Peel Glen (NS 521 725); Gordon mentions the vague foundations of stone buildings there, and Roy states that traces of this "fort" were scarcely discernible.
J Horsley 1732; A Gordon 1726; W Roy 1793.
This feature, if it was a structure at all, must have resembled the fortlet at Watling Lodge (NS87NE 7); it can scarcely have been larger. All traces of it have now completely vanished.
G Macdonald 1934.
Field Visit (June 1977)
Peel Glen NS c. 52 1 725 NS57SW 26
A minor installation, perhaps comparable to that at Wilderness Plantation, may have stood in Peel Glen.
RCAHMS 1978, visited June 1977
(Horsley 1732, 165; Macdonald 1934, 350; Wilkes 1974)
