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The Roman Fortlet at Barburgh Mill, Dumfriesshire*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

David J. Breeze
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Abstract

Complete excavation in 1971 confirmed the Roman date and provided a complete plan of the fortlet at Barburgh Mill (NX 903884) which measured 29·50 m by 28·50 m within its single ditch and turf rampart. The entrance was defended by a gate of six timbers probably surmounted by a tower. It contained two timber buildings in plan appropriate for an infantry century. A latrine lay in one corner of the fortlet and two possible hearths between the two buildings. The fortlet was surrounded on the north and east by an outer rampart and ditch and the resulting enclosure subdivided by a medial ditch. The entrance of the outer enclosure was undefended. There was only one structural phase represented at the site and the pottery suggests a date in the Antonine I period, c. 142-58. When the site was abandoned the buildings were probably burnt, the rampart slighted and broken and surplus pottery dumped in the ditches.

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Britannia , Volume 5 , November 1974 , pp. 130 - 162
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Copyright © David J. Breeze 1974. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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