Carrs Fell (Matfen)
On Hadrian's Wall a temporary camp has been identified on Carr's Fell (NZ 037681) south of Wall Houses. The north side, some 400ft long, corresponding lengths of the east and west sides and the two rounded northern angles, have been recorded by crop marks. (1)(2)
Field-work and research by RCHME has failed to confirm the existence of a temporary camp of c.2ha (5 acres) postulated from crop marks some 500m south of the Wall at Wallhouses. Vertical air photographs taken by the RAF in 1959, immediately before levelling of the site, show a standing earthwork, which local enquiry and early maps indicate to have been a ditched enclosure with rounded corners made between 1839 and 1860, but ignored in later editions of the Ordnance maps. (3)
Rejected as a camp by RCHME: Roman Camps in England Project. The NMR Archive includes original fieldwork material by RAH Farrar. (4)
Field-work and research by RCHME has failed to confirm the existence of a temporary camp of c.2ha (5 acres) postulated from crop marks some 500m south of the Wall at Wallhouses. Vertical air photographs taken by the RAF in 1959, immediately before levelling of the site, show a standing earthwork, which local enquiry and early maps indicate to have been a ditched enclosure with rounded corners made between 1839 and 1860, but ignored in later editions of the Ordnance maps. (3)
Rejected as a camp by RCHME: Roman Camps in England Project. The NMR Archive includes original fieldwork material by RAH Farrar. (4)
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, RCHME: Carr's Fell ; RCHME
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