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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2011
The site whose excavation is the subject of this article was discovered during routine inspection of air photographs undertaken by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland as part of the preparatory work for the Inventory of Lanarkshire. The prints in question (National Air Survey sortie no. 541/A/530, prints 3137-–8) revealed the existence of what appeared to be a small ring-ditched enclosure a little way to the east of Beattock Summit, immediately to the north-east of the Roman road; it was situated at a height of 335 m (1100 ft.) O.D. on the lower slopes of Nap Hill, some 600 m (1970 ft.) north-north-west of Upper Howecleuch farmhouse (National Grid reference: NS 999153; FIG. 1).
1 The present report is published by courtesy of the Commissioners, to amplify the brief account that will appear in the Inventory of Lanarkshire.
2 cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxxv (1900–1901), 15–43; Trans. Perthshire Soc. Natur. Sc. (Special issue, 1974), 14–29.Google Scholar
3 S. N. Miller (ed.), The Roman Occupation of South-western Scotland (1952), 24.
4 See now Limesforschungen 12, 120–4.
5 For evidence of use of wattle-and-daub panelling in the construction of timber watch-towers cf. JRS, lxiii (1973), 218.Google Scholar
6 S. N. Miller (ed.), op. cit. (note 3), 111–12.
7 R. G. Collingwood and I. A. Richmond, The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1969), 60–6.
8 Trans. Perthshire Soc. Natur. Sc. (Special issue, 1974), 20–1.
9 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lxxxvi (1951–1952), 202–5.Google Scholar
