Report on the Society's Excavation of Rough Castle on the Antonine Vallum

Abstract

As the funds of the Society had been considerably encroached upon in defraying the expenses of excavating Roman sites for a period of eight years, the Council instituted in 1902 a subscription among the Fellows and others for the purpose of continuing that line of investigation, and ample funds were thus obtained for the excavation of Rough Castle, leaving a considerable balance in our favour.Leave having been freely granted by Mr Forbes of Callander and the Very Rev. Dr J. C. Russell, proprietors of the ground, the work began early in March, and was continued, not without some interruption from bad weather, till October 1903.Several members of the Council kept up a general superintendence, Mr Thomas Ross's great experience being again available in directing the work.Mr Mungo Buchanan once more gave his valuable services in taking the plans, devoting every moment he could spare from his own business to a careful study of the complex structures that were revealed; and Mr Alex. Mackie, who had served us already so well as Clerk of Works in four excavations of Roman sites, was reappointed on this occasion. Position of Rough Castle.According to Robert Stuart's chart in Caledonia Rornana, Rough Castle was the thirteenth fort on the line of the Vallum counting from the west, and the seventh counting from the east.Evident remains of nine forts are still to be seen to the west, but nothing exists above ground of the six to the east.Castlecary, the nearest fort on the Vallum, lies 3£ miles westward of Rough Castle ; the station at Camelon, PLAN, or THE ROMAN TORT ON TMC ANTONINC VALLUM.

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