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2. SCOTLAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2023

Fraser Hunter
Fraser Hunter*
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Britannia , Volume 54 , November 2023 , pp. 339 - 341
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NORTH OF THE ANTONINE WALL

ABERDEENSHIRE

(1) Tap o'Noth (NJ 4845 2930): excavationFootnote 23 of house platforms on the hillfort produced evidence of a major Roman Iron Age phase, with radiocarbon dates spanning the third to sixth centuries. Among the finds were sherds of Roman pottery, including Nene Valley colour-coat.

PERTH AND KINROSS

(1) Longforgan (NO 30037 30213): a watching briefFootnote 24 on a development area across the south-east ditch of the temporary campFootnote 25 revealed no internal features. Two ditch sections showed a slightly tapered U-shaped profile up to 2.0 m wide and 0.7 m deep (fig. 2);Footnote 26 one section showed a basal stony layer below the dominant single homogenised fill.

FIG. 2.

Longforgan. Temporary camp ditch sections.

THE ANTONINE WALL

FALKIRK

(1) Seabegs Wood (NS 81362 79294): geophysical surveyFootnote 27 identified likely structures between the Wall and the Military Way and an area of possible industrial activity south of the road.

(2) Milnquarter (NS 82193 79668): gradiometer surveyFootnote 28 confirmed the line of the Ditch and identified a likely course of the Military Way, with an enclosure containing burning lying to the north of the road.

(3) Bonnyside East (NS 84049 79821): gradiometer surveyFootnote 29 along the Wall line located a possible fortlet 195 m east of the Bonnyside East expansion, with anomalies defining a rectilinear feature 25 m wide, its southern half truncated by a footpath.

(4) Rough Castle (NS 84381 79866): geophysical surveyFootnote 30 confirmed the location of internal buildings within the fortFootnote 31 and likely industrial activity within the annexe as well as the known bathhouse.

(5) Mumrills, 32 Polmont Rd, Laurieston (NS 9159 7940): several trenchesFootnote 32 in the garden revealed an early phase of activity linked to the putative early fort, succeeded by two substantial timber buildings flanking a road, each containing a probable iron-smelting furnace. It confirms the developing picture of an intensively build-up industrial annexe.Footnote 33

(6) Bo'ness, Kinglass (NT 003 810): resistivity surveyFootnote 34 located anomalies consistent with the south-west corner of the campFootnote 35 close to its anticipated line. Survey and excavation of the postulated north-east corner found no traces, but the northern ditch line was located running slightly further south and east than expected.

SOUTH OF THE ANTONINE WALL

WEST LOTHIAN

(1) Castle Greg (NT 0502 5925): geophysical surveyFootnote 36 identified what is probably a pair of conjoined buildingsFootnote 37 within the fortletFootnote 38 and a possible oven between them. Results correlate well with an earlier resistivity survey.Footnote 39

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22

This account usually includes significant stray finds which have passed through the Treasure Trove system, but no allocation meetings were held in this period.

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23 By G. Noble of Aberdeen University, who sent details.

24 By D. Hall, who sent a report, on a house plot for V. and B. Stevenson.

25 R.H. Jones, Roman camps in Scotland (2011), 266–7. For earlier work in the same area, see Britannia 46 (2014), 288.

26 But notably more poorly preserved to the north-east.

27 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Hannon sent details.

28 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Hannon sent details.

29 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Hannon sent details.

30 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Hannon sent details.

31 Robertson, A.S. and Keppie, L., The Antonine Wall: a Handbook to Scotland's Roman Frontier (6th edn, 2015), 70–4Google Scholar.

32 Excavations for Falkirk Local History Society were led by G. Bailey, who sent a report.

33 G. Bailey, The Antonine Wall in the Falkirk District (2021), 251–310.

34 Led by I. Hawkins of Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, with excavation led by G. Bailey of Falkirk Local History Society; both sent reports.

35 R.H. Jones, Roman camps in Scotland (2011), 244.

36 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland; Dr Hannon sent a report.

37 An arrangement with some wider parallels: M. Symonds, Protecting the Roman Frontier (2018), figs 8, 44a and c.

38 RCAHMS, Tenth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the Counties of Midlothian and West Lothian (1929), 140–1 no. 177.

39 Britannia 44 (2013), 284, fig. 2; however, the lack of magnetic response indicates that anomalies previously interpreted as ovens on the resistivity survey are most likely related to tumble from the ramparts.

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FIG. 2. Longforgan. Temporary camp ditch sections.

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