Seabegs Wood is the site of a small Antonine Wall fortlet, located between the forts of Castlecary and Rough Castle in central Scotland. Built c. AD 142 as part of Antoninus Pius's frontier in southern Scotland, it formed one of a series of milefortlets spaced along the Wall, and was occupied until the Antonine withdrawal in the 160s.
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The fortlet served as an intermediate garrison point on the Antonine Wall, housing a small detachment that controlled local movement and supplemented the larger forts. A particularly well-preserved stretch of the Wall rampart and ditch survives at Seabegs Wood, making it one of the more visible upstanding sections of the frontier.
Excavation in 1977 by Lawrence Keppie confirmed the fortlet's dimensions (c. 17 × 20 m internally), with turf ramparts on a stone base, north and south gates, and traces of internal timber buildings interpreted as barracks. The adjacent Military Way and a fine stretch of rampart, ditch and upcast mound are visible in the wood, now managed as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland.
(Note: this Pleiades record was withdrawn as a duplicate of place 89287; the substantive entry for the site resides there.)
Seabegs Wood is the site of a small Antonine Wall fortlet, located between the forts of Castlecary and Rough Castle in central Scotland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Withdrawn (duplicate): Seabegs Wood is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Seabegs Wood (0.5 km), Castlecary (2.3 km), Rough Castle (3.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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