OSMap: LR99
Type: Marching Camp
|
NGRef: SE2399 OSMap: LR99 Type: Marching Camp |
|
| Roads | |
|---|---|
|
See CATARACTONIVM (Catterick) | |
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE231991 | (160+ x c.230 m) | (3.6 ha) | This camp lies on the alluvial plain of the River Swale, on the S bank of the river just NE of Catterick racecourse, the ancient line of Dere Street passes by the camp some 350m to the W. Only the NE corner angle, a length of the N rampart and a longer section of the E defences have been recorded. There is a gateway with an external titulum located about mid-way along the shorter N side, but gaps in the E rampart cannot be readily identified as gates. It is quite possible that the N defences extended only a little more westwards, and a slight inward turn on the end of the S rampart may indicate the beginnings of the SE corner-angle. If this is the case then the camp would not have been very much larger than the existing defences indicate. (JRS 1953 p.90, 1956 p.82; RCHME.) |
