Temporary Marching Camps

Bean Burn, Seatsides, Northumberland

NGRef: NY7566
OSMap: LR86/87
Type: 2 Marching Camps
Roads
See Seatsides (Northumberland)
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
Bean Burn 1, Northumberland
NY756660187 ft²
(57 m²)
¾ acres
(0.3 ha)
This perfectly square small camp has 4 gates, one in the centre of each side, the gates to N & S protected by external titulum defences.
Bean Burn 2, Northumberland
NY75526662 ft²
(19 m²)
0.09 acres
(0.04 ha)
This very small, perfectly square camp lies only (120m) W of Camp-1, had 4 gates with external tituli recorded in 1966 but the only gateways now discernable lie in the centre of the E and S sides, both camps lie just over (200m) S of the Stanegate.

There are three more marching camps to the north-west at Seatsides on the Stanegate, and another just south of the Vallum at Twice Brewed.

See: Roman Camps in England - The Field Archaeology by the R.C.H.M.E.

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