Alternative Names 'Roman Camp'
Site type ENCLOSURE
Canmore ID 47945
Site Number NS97SE 4
NGR NS 9721 7394
Council WEST LOTHIAN
Parish TORPHICHEN
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District WEST LOTHIAN
Former County WEST LOTHIAN

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Archaeological Notes

NS97SE 4 9721 7394.

(NS 9721 7396) Remains of Camp (R) (Supposed Roman)
OS 6" map (1854)

There are traces of what has been called a Roman camp SW of Lochcote (J Stuart 1868). Its outline is much defaced, but part of the earthen bank surrounding it is still 2' high. No remains of any kind have been found.
Name Book 1854

This is probably a reference to the slight remains of a small enclosrue c. 16.0m square which lies at the foot of a steep slope. It is not an antiquity and is probably no more than an old cattle pen.
Visited by OS (JP) 13 August 1974

Ordnance Survey (Name Book) Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey (6 inch and 1/2500 scale)
Page(s): Book No.54, 17 Held at RCAHMS Ref

Stuart, J (1868d) 'Notice of a group of artificial islands in the Loch of Dowalton, Wigtonshire, and of other artificial islands or "Crannogs" throughout Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.6
Page(s): 159-60