OSMap: LR64
Type: Camp
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NGRef: NS7075 OSMap: LR64 Type: Camp |
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See Bar Hill (Strathclyde) | |
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
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| NS707757 | (? m) | (c.0.5 ha) | A Roman marching camp is suspected just to the south-west of the Bar Hill fort. A single ditch observed from the air and investigated by the spade, was found to be V-shaped in section, about 6½ ft wide by 2¾ ft. deep (c.2 x 0.8 m). Although the complete outline has not been recorded, constrictions of topography suggest that the camp covered an area of no more than about 1½ acres (c.0.6 ha). The northern defences were proved by excavation in 1983 whereupon the remains of wooden tent-pegs were recovered from the ditch. It is possible that this site represents part of a labour-camp associated not with the Antonine barrier, but specifically with the construction of the Bar Hill fort itself. |
Although the evidence for the Bar Hill camp is inconclusive, there is another marching camp close to the Wall nearby at Twechar (NS6975) and a Roman fortlet a little way south of the Wall at Mollins (NS7171).
