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Cropmarks of a Roman Temporay Camp, of the type with Stracathro-type gates (clavicula). Discovered by the RCAHMS during aerial reconnaissance in 1983 and photographed subsequently with increasing detail by them and CUCAP. It lies to the east of and immedately adjoins one of the eastern annexes of the Roman fortlet (NO45NW0010). Small scale investigations, by Maxwell and St Joseph in 1984, revealed a V-profile ditch about 1.8 m wide and 0.9 m deep from a trench across the south-east side and another V-shaped ditch, 1.2 m wide at the top of the loose gravel subsoil and 0.9 m deep on the east side. The virtual absence of primary silt in the latter suggested to the excavators that it had been soon backfilled. In 2002 Wooliscroft and Hoffman conducted a resistivity survey which covered most of the west of the camp. This discovered the remains of the north-west corner and confirmed that the camp was slightly irregular on plan. Much of the north side has been destroyed by erosion, it measures circa 145 m east-west x 144 m long on the west and the (incomplete) east side is 159 m long, suggesting a length of at least 162 m, giving an area initially estimated at circa 2.3 ha (5.7 acres), which has been adjusted by rectification of the oblique aerial photographs to circa 2.124 ha (5.25 acres).
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NO45NW0024 - INVERQUHARITY ROMAN CAMP