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Beancross

No Class (Event)

Site Name Beancross

Classification No Class (Event)

Canmore ID 92182

Site Number NS97NW 46.03

NGR NS 924 795

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Falkirk
  • Parish Falkirk
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Falkirk
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Activities

Watching Brief (1994)

NS97NW 46.03 924 795.

In September 1994 a four-day watching brief was carried out during the excavation of new drainage channels associated with the Laurieston by-pass at Beancross where these crossed the scheduled area associated with the Antonine Wall. Part of a post-medieval stone culvert was found running towards the Roman ditch. This would have taken effluent from Beancross village and deposited it in the ditch. A layer of peat running W to E delineated the northern edge of the upcast mound associated with the digging of that ditch. The deposits generally indicated the waterlogged nature of the area since the Roman period. No Roman levels were encountered.

Sponsor: Central Consultancy (CRC).

G B Bailey 1994e.

Publication Account (1995)

NS 924 796 In 1987, a 1.8m wide trench, dug on the site of the earlier work by Buchanan and Smith (Macdonald 1915), recorded the Wall base 4.3m wide and well preserved with both kerbs surviving. The Wall base lay some 0.35m below the present ground surface, preserving only 0.08m of the Roman levels above the stone base. The area above the core consisted of grey clay-loam containing from one to three distinct bands of red-brown soil, interpreted as the turf block structure of the rampart. This is only the second time that turfwork has been found in the core of the rampart in the 9 miles of the Wall E of Watling Lodge (Keppie 1974).

L J F Keppie, G B Bailey, A J Dunwell, J H McBrien and K Speller 1995

L J F Keppie 1974; G Macdonald 1915

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