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Coats Hill

Enclosure (Period Unknown), Watch Tower (Roman)(Possible)

Site Name Coats Hill

Classification Enclosure (Period Unknown), Watch Tower (Roman)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Moffat Golf Course; Moffat Golf Club House

Canmore ID 48397

Site Number NT00SE 35

NGR NT 07435 04823

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkpatrick-juxta
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT00SE 35 07435 04823

NT 0743 0482. On Coats Hill, some 70.0m SW of the Roman Road from Carlisle to Crawford at a height of approximately 650' are slight surface indications suggestive of a Ro. Signal Station. The site is very similar (though larger) to the signal station on White Type Hill (NT01SE 2) and is intervisible with White Type Hill to the north, and to the area of the Roman camp at Beattock to the south (NT00SE 20) The outlook to Tassisesholm and beyond is obscured, however, by adjacent high ground the summit of which would make a far better view point for a signal station. The remains consist of an almost circular mound 0.3m high measuring about 13.6m N-S by 12.8m E-W. It appears to have been encircled by a narrow shallow ditch averaging 1.2m in width but apparently increasing to about 2.0m on the W and S. Around the counterscarp of the ditch is a slight earth and stone bank averaging 1.2m in width and in the northern segment where it is best preserved, about 0.1m high. There is no positive evidence of an entrance though it can be conjectured from the mutilation of the bank and a slight suggestion of infilling to the ditch in the NE that a causeway may have existed at this point. The enclosure appears to be of some antiquity and is clearly not part of the golf course on which it is sited. There are reasonable grounds for supposing that it might be a signal station but its identification must remain in doubt until proved by excavation.

Surveyed at 1/2500. See also illustration card for enlargement.

Visited by OS (ECW) 17 April 1974

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (TRG) 23 August 1978

Scheduled as 'Coats Hill, Roman Signal Station 215m W of Moffat Golf Club clubhouse... the earthwork remains of a circular enclosure, representing the outer defences of a Roman watchtower... in rough ground on Moffat Golf Course.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 13 March 2010.

(Symbol centred NT 07435 04823). Enclosure [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.

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Field Visit (12 April 1990)

NT 0743 0482 NT00SE 35

The remains of this enclosure are situated in rough ground on Moffat golf course. Oval on plan, it measures about 16.4m in diameter from E to W by 14.2m transversely within a shallow ditch up to about 2m in breadth and 0.2m in depth. The ditch appears to be continuous but it is very shallow and poorly defined on the S. There is slight evidence for a low counterscarp bank on the N, and the interior is featureless except for an irregular hollow close to the centre.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 12 April 1990

Listed as enclosure.

RCAHMS 1997.

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