Temporary Marching Camp

Tamfourhill, Central

NGRef: NS8579
OSMap: LR65
Type: Marching Camp
Roads
See Camelon (Strathclyde)
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
NS859794c.600 x 490 ft
(c.185 x 150 m)		c.7 acres
(c.2.8 ha)		Discovered from the air in 1977 lying about 300 yards south of the Antonine Wall and about 330 yards south-west of the Watling Lodge fortlet. The northern gateway of this larger example of Antonine labour-camps was defended by a titulum outwork.
See: Britannia ix (1978) p.413;
Air Reconnaissance in Roman Britain 1977-1984 by G.S. Maxwell & D.R. Wilson in Britannia xviii (1987) p.29;
Britannia xxxii (2001) pp.319/20.

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