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« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2007, 03:13:11 pm »



Fig 7. Barrack block showing on the Fendoch magnetometer survey.

This may be a second annex, or the two might represent the result of a single enclosure being expanded or contracted. Its southeast corner is, however, rather angular and the feature may not be Roman at all. Only excavation will tell but, whatever the case, both fort ditches continue across its northern front.

Inside the fort, we had not really hoped to compete with the information already supplied by the excavation. The magnetometry did, however, produce an image of a complete barrack block near the southeast corner. This is a useful control on Richmond's plan of the same structure, which merely extrapolates from a small number of slit trenches. The block shows in considerable detail with individual room partitions being visible, but quite why this building was brought out so clearly when none of the others show at all remains a mystery.

45m to the fort's southwest, a very high resistance feature was detected in an area of lower lying, damp (low resistance) ground, which probably hides a spring. This consisted of a square anomaly attached to an oval or apsidal structure which, together, measured c. 16m (e-w) x 27m (n-s). The high readings suggest stonework and although, as yet, there is no conclusive proof that the feature is Roman (or even man made), the size and form mean that the possibility of a bath building seems at least worth raising. If so, this would be a major discovery for, although a bath block is known at the legionary fortress of Inchtuthil, no other extramural bath has yet been found amongst the 1st century forts to the north of the Forth and Clyde. Newton.

Archaeologists have long sought in vain for a Roman fort in Fife. Two temporary camps are known with certainty and there is a third probable site at Bonneytown but, at present, not a single permanent installation is known. Last year we reported on finding a promising candidate from the air at Newton near Collessie. This lay in a strategically important position and seemed to be the right size and shape.

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