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Roman camps, comprising a 120 acre camp partially overlying a smaller Agricolan camp with a Strathcathro-type claviculae. The larger camp is shown on a map of 1789. The north side of the larger camp cuts the west side of the smaller exactly at the point where the ditch of latter turns outwards at the gate. In construction the defences of the larger camp are stronger than those of the smaller. The rampart still survives in two places, averaging 3.5m wide and 0.7m high. The camp lies in arable and improved pasture fields, with parts of its south west and south east sides still preserved in field boundaries. Here the rampart measures 3.7m in width and up to 0.7m in height. Parts of the north west, north east and south east sides are visible as cropmarks on air photographs. Two of the six tituli are clearly visible as crop marks, in the northern part of the north west side and in the centre of the north east side. Haverfield and Macdonald carried out excavations at the site in 1913, recording that the ditch was at least 2.7m wide and 1.2m deep on the south west side. Further excavations were carried out in 1968 to discover the relationship between it and the second overlapping camp (NJ63NE0037), discovered from the air that year to the east. The ditch of camp I was recorded as v-shaped on the north east side, measuring 3.4m wide and 1.2m in depth.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)