Canmore Site 49524: MUIRHOUSES - BO'NESS AND CARRIDEN - TEMPORARY CAMP (ROMAN)
Description
Site Name | MUIRHOUSES |
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Other Name(s) | DRUM, HOLLAND COTTAGE, ANTONINE WALL |
Site Number | NT08SW 12 |
Broad Class | DEFENCE |
Site Type(s) | TEMPORARY CAMP (ROMAN) |
NGR | NT 01662 80683 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 1m |
Local Authority | FALKIRK |
Parish | BO'NESS AND CARRIDEN |
Record created | 1990-08-08 |
Last updated | 2022-07-28 |
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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