Springhill (Berwick upon Tweed)
[NU 00125065] 'I excavated a trench in 1946 in the vicinity of the Roman fort discovered on aerial photographs by Dr J K St Joseph (CUC B41) and found an Antonine Sherd'. (1)(10c)
This site, previously thought to be a Roman Fort. (2)
Now seems most likely to be a native settlement of the 'Roman Iron Age'. (3)
Scheduled under Roman Camps. (4)
Roman Fortlet (Site of). (5)
No apparent ground indications of this feature, the site has been mutilated by a reservoir and deep road cutting. (6)
Further investigation has shown that this site is not a fortlet. (7)
Scheduled as a Roman marching camp.
An Iron Age/Roman enclosed settlement or hillfort, centred at NU 0011 5064, is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Very little survives, but it appears to have been formed by two, roughly concentric, circular ditches. Each measures a little over 3m wide. They are separated by a gap of approximately 10m. The A1167 and a covered reservoir truncate the site to the west. Were the ditches extrapolated to form a circle the internal area would measure approximately 0.98ha. (8)
Evaluation trenches excavated in 2019 found no trace of the camp. In several trenches bedrock was present close to the surface, some of which lay in a stepped or ridged profile. It is suggested there is a possibility that the features interpreted as cropmarks of an Iron Age or Roman camp in the 1950s may derive from geological or later industrial activity. (9)
Scheduled as a Roman marching camp. (10a)
An Iron Age/Roman enclosed settlement or hillfort, centred at NU 0011 5064, is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Very little survives, but it appears to have been formed by two, roughly concentric, circular ditches. Each measures a little over 3m wide. They are separated by a gap of approximately 10m. The A1167 and a covered reservoir truncate the site to the west. Were the ditches extrapolated to form a circle the internal area would measure approximately 0.98ha. (10b)
This site, previously thought to be a Roman Fort. (2)
Now seems most likely to be a native settlement of the 'Roman Iron Age'. (3)
Scheduled under Roman Camps. (4)
Roman Fortlet (Site of). (5)
No apparent ground indications of this feature, the site has been mutilated by a reservoir and deep road cutting. (6)
Further investigation has shown that this site is not a fortlet. (7)
Scheduled as a Roman marching camp.
An Iron Age/Roman enclosed settlement or hillfort, centred at NU 0011 5064, is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Very little survives, but it appears to have been formed by two, roughly concentric, circular ditches. Each measures a little over 3m wide. They are separated by a gap of approximately 10m. The A1167 and a covered reservoir truncate the site to the west. Were the ditches extrapolated to form a circle the internal area would measure approximately 0.98ha. (8)
Evaluation trenches excavated in 2019 found no trace of the camp. In several trenches bedrock was present close to the surface, some of which lay in a stepped or ridged profile. It is suggested there is a possibility that the features interpreted as cropmarks of an Iron Age or Roman camp in the 1950s may derive from geological or later industrial activity. (9)
Scheduled as a Roman marching camp. (10a)
An Iron Age/Roman enclosed settlement or hillfort, centred at NU 0011 5064, is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Very little survives, but it appears to have been formed by two, roughly concentric, circular ditches. Each measures a little over 3m wide. They are separated by a gap of approximately 10m. The A1167 and a covered reservoir truncate the site to the west. Were the ditches extrapolated to form a circle the internal area would measure approximately 0.98ha. (10b)
N4131
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1967; E C Waight
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Till Tweed NMP 2003; English Heritage
EVALUATION, Springhill, Tweedmouth 2019; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, Springhill, Spittal 2019; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
EXCAVATION, Excavation at Springhill Camp
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Till Tweed NMP 2003; English Heritage
EVALUATION, Springhill, Tweedmouth 2019; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, Springhill, Spittal 2019; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
EXCAVATION, Excavation at Springhill Camp
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