centred 6142 0790. Roman Fort (R) (remains of) OS 1:10,000 map, (1979) Early writers have referred to a 'Roman Camp' at Bochastle and in 1949 excavations began on the site. The earthwork was found to be an original quadrate Roman fort (occupying an area of about 3 ha) with a rampart built on a turf base, with a single ditch outside it and normal entrances in the centre of each side. At some period (whether during occupation or not is uncertain) destruction or damage led to the reconstruction of the NE corner, together with part of the E rampart and the N part of the W rampart. The internal arrangements of the fort have not yet been discovered, nor has the principia been located. Pottery and other finds, although few, indicate a 1st century date and undoubted Agricolan origin. W A Anderson, C Taylor and A Sommerville 1956. NN 6142 0790. The best-preserved feature of this fort is the W rampart, turf-covered, in places 2.7m high, with a well-defined entrance. The road shown on the plan by Authy 2 at the E of the entrance is defined by a low, spread mound, 0.7m high in places, which probably extended round the S side of the fort to a point opposite the W entrance where it turns sharply to join the W rampart. Several of the finds from the site are in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (E G C) 24 October 1968. Crop-marks reveal two ditches defining some 500ft of the E side of the fort, interrupted at the E gate where they curve inwards. The rounded SE angle lies wholly N of the railway to Callander, and the S side would appear to converge very gradually with the railway embankment. The NE angle of the fort and perhaps all the N defences have been destroyed by river erosion. J K St Joseph 1969. Photographed by the RCAHMS. Visible on RCAHMS air photographs (see archive). The Roman fort at Bochastle lies just to the N of the dismantled railway, about 200m NE of Bochastle farm. Part of the W side of the fort is upstanding but the evidence for the rest consists of cropmark remains. The internal dimensions of the fort are about 170m N-S by 140m E-W. Some internal features are visible. Transcription prepared by RCAHMS (RHM, MMB & GSM) 22 February 1996. Information from RCAHMS (RHM) 17 September 1996. NN 614 079 Resistance and magnetic surveys were conducted over the entire fort and its surroundings. The results contradict various unusual features described in the report on the excavations in the 1950s (1). The survey confirmed aerial evidence of a double ditch circuit with 'parrot beak' gate breaks.
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centred 6142 0790. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
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