NT 212434. Nine house-platforms and associated field-banks yielded flat-rim ware and 14C dates indicating occupation in the later 2nd millennium BC. The multi-period cairn, built in late 3rd millennium BC, covered burials with grave-goods including Beakers, shale ornaments, flint knives and collared urns. AR
Complete excavation in igji confirmed the Roman date and provided a complete plan of the fortlet at Barburgh Mill {NX 903884) which measured 29-50 m by 28-50 m within its single ditch and turf rampart. The entrance was defended by a gate of six timbers probably surmounted by a tower. It contained two timber buildings in plan appropriate for an infantry century. A latrine lay in one corner of the fortlet and two possible hearths between the two buildings. The fortlet was surrounded on the north and east by an outer rampart and ditch and the resulting enclosure subdivided by a medial ditch. The entrance of the outer enclosure was undefended. There was only one structural phase represented at the site and the pottery suggests a date in the Antonine I period, c. 142-58. When the site was abandoned the buildings were probably burnt, the rampart slighted and broken and surplus pottery dumped in the ditches.
NY 304901. Instead of the non-defensive stone enclosures of Tyne-Forth, E Dumfriesshire appears to have had embanked enclosures with interior scooping and timber houses. Their assumed medieval date has been disproved by excavation at Boonies, a 0.07ha settlement with a TPQ of late 1st century AD. Within the enclosure were the ring-trenches of 13 round houses, mostly occupied only one at a time, but in the end five houses co-existed and one had encroached on the bank area.
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