Canmore Site 49524: MUIRHOUSES - BO'NESS AND CARRIDEN - TEMPORARY CAMP (ROMAN)


Description

Site NameMUIRHOUSES
Other Name(s)DRUM, HOLLAND COTTAGE, ANTONINE WALL
Site NumberNT08SW 12
Broad ClassDEFENCE
Site Type(s)TEMPORARY CAMP (ROMAN)
NGRNT 01662 80683
NGR accuracyNGR given to the nearest 1m
Local AuthorityFALKIRK
ParishBO'NESS AND CARRIDEN
Record created1990-08-08
Last updated2022-07-28

Archaeology Notes

NT08SW 12 0166 8067 For possible souterrain within the area of this camp, see NT08SW 91. NT 016 807. At Muirhouses a small Roman temporary camp has been identified. The N side, about 425ft long with a central gate, a similar length on both E and W sides, and the two rounded northern angles, showed as faint lines in a cereal crop. (Visible on CUCAP air photograph ACC 94). J K St Joseph 1961. NT 0166 8067. There is nothing visible of this camp on the ground. Site surveyed at 1:2500 scale from air photograph. Visited by OS (B S) 12 March 1974. Additional aerial photographs taken by the RCAHMS in 1979. (RCAHMS WL 2015-17). Information from OS Archaeology Branch records [1979]. Scheduled as 'Antonine Wall, Roman temporary camp 105m NNW of Holland Cottage... the buried remains of a Roman temporary camp, visible on oblique aerial photographs as cropmarks of its perimeter ditch.' [Dated to mid-2nd century AD, and associated with the construction of the Antonine Wall and of Carriden fort (NT08SW 7.00)]. Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 November 2010.

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