centred .01 NO 289 460 Bronze Pendant; Pottery; Miscellaneous Finds (Centred at NO 2890 4600) Roman Camp (R) (Site of) (Centred at NO ) Earthen Vessels, etc found (NAT) For fragments of Roman amphora found 'near Meigle' and possibly from Cardean, see . Most of the Roman fort at Cardean is visible on AP's. St. Joseph suggests there may have been more than one fort because of the varying widths of the ditches and causeways. The whole of the NE. and SE. sides, c.550' in length, with a central gateway in each, two main streets and some side streets may be seen. A road leading through the NE. gate bends slightly S. to follow the crest of the ridge. Broad ditches running from the E. and W. angles may delimit an annexe enclosing the spur of land between the Isla and the Dean Water. Partial excavations carried out between 1966-8 showed the NW. rampart to have had a 20' wide turf base, and two 10' wide ditches. On the inner side of the rampart there were very heavy laid stoneworks, behind which ran a cobbled inter-vallum street. On the inner side of the street there was a wooden barrack block at right-angles to the rampart. Entrances in the two NW. ditches were located. Three ditches were found at the E. corner of the fort, the inner 16' wide by 5' deep, the second 27' by 8' deep, the third 53' wide by 9' deep. The finds indicated a single Flavian occupation. J K St Joseph 1951, 1965; J J Robertson 1966, 1967; Name Book 1861; A S Robertson 1968 The site of the fort is under cultivation but the rampart can be traced as a low spread mound accompanied by a broad ditch on the NE, and SE. sides. Breaks in the rampart indicate the sites of three of the gates in the NE., SE. and SW. sides. The road is clearly visible entering the NE. gate as a low agger with a scatter of metalling. It leaves the SW. gate by means of a gully leading to the river. Surveyed at 1:2500 by means of AP's and ground measurement. Visited by OS (JP) 16 February 1970 Excavations carried out from 1968 to 1972 by the Scottish Field School of Archaeology,directed by Dr A.S. Robertson, established that the defences on the north and SE consisted of a turf rampart, 6.1m. wide, with four external ditches. The gateway on the north was 12m. wide. Finds confirm the single Flavian occupation, ending in abandonment shortly after 86AD. The occurence of I.A.native rim-sherds in the interior of the fort and underlying the rampart suggest that a small native settlement was removed to make way for the fort. D R Wilson 1969, 1971, 1972; A S Robertson 1970, 1971, 1972 Bun-shaped quern RMS BB 124. E J MacKie 1971.
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centred .01 NO 289 460 Bronze Pendant; Pottery; Miscellaneous Finds (Centred at NO 2890 4600) Roman Camp (R) (Site of) (Centred at NO ) Earthen Vessels, etc found (NAT) For fragments of Roman amphora found 'near Meigle' and possibly from Cardean, see . It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
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