OSMap: LR137/148
Type: Fort
The Jay Lane Fort - VRML Model
Prepared in the RBO Scriptorium
This is big! - currently 18 files; 169Kb.
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NGRef: SO4074 OSMap: LR137/148 Type: Fort |
The Jay Lane Fort - VRML Model Prepared in the RBO Scriptorium This is big! - currently 18 files; 169Kb. |
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| NGRef. | Size | Area |
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| SO4074 | 537 x 448 ft (164 x 137 m) | c.5½ acres (c.2.24 ha) |
This fort was probably the first permanent Roman military camp to be built in the area, followed by later forts at Buckton and Leintwardine. It seems likely that Jay Lane was contemporary with the supply depot built into the north-west corner of Brandon Camp. The fort was discovered from the air by W.A. Baker in 1960 and excavated by S.C. Standford in 1961-62, who concluded that Jay Lane was established around AD50 and dismantled in 78. The ramparts were of turf with timber corner-towers, interval-towers and gateways, the internal buildings were also of wooden construction. The fort was surrounded by a double-ditch defensive system. Each of the ditches was about 6 ft. wide and about 3 ft. deep (1.8 x 0.9 m), separated from each other by a ravelin about 5 ft. (1.5m) wide, while the inner ditch was separated from the rampart by a berm 8 ft. (c.2.5m) across. The encampment is large enough to have housed an ala quingenaria, a squadron of auxiliary cavalry nominally five-hundred strong.
 Plan of the Jay Lane Fort Based on that in S.C. Standford's Excavation Report (fig.5, p.229) |
