Antonine Wall, Tentfield West
Signal Platform (Roman)
Site Name Antonine Wall, Tentfield West
Classification Signal Platform (Roman)
Alternative Name(s) Tentfield Expansion
Canmore ID 127415
Site Number NS87NE 5.02
NGR NS 8500 7990
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/127415
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Falkirk
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Field Visit (1793)
NS87NE 5.02 8500 7990
Surveyed by W Roy and represented by him as a small square earthwork, 18' each way, abutting on the S face of the wall.
W. Roy 1793.
Field Visit (29 January 1957)
NS87NE 5.02 8500 7990
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JLD) 29 January 1957
Observation (1957)
NS87NE 5.02 8500 7990
(See NS87NE 5.00)
There are two "expansions" projecting from the S face of the Antonine Wall rampart at Tentfield. They are to be compared with that at Bonnyside East (NS87NW 4) which was proved by excavation by the RCAHMS to have been a rectangular beacon stance, communicating with the area N of the Wall, its semi-circular shape in 1957 being due to the collapse of weathered turfwork.
The W expansion, at NS 8500 7990, was barely discernible in 1957, but would seem to be identical with that noted by Roy.
The badly mutilated remains of the expansion at NS 8500 7990 may still be seen in the form of a roughly semicircular mound, about 8.0m E-W, protruding 7.0m from the rampart, and 1.3m high.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1957; W Roy 1793; K A Steer 1959
