More information : Centred NY 0036 3004] Burrow Walls [GT] on site of Roman Fort [GS] (1)
Gabrosentum. (2)
Excavations in 1955 showed Burrow Walls to be a typical 2nd cent. Roman fort, double ditched with inner bank, and a later ditch inside the latter giving evidence for a smaller fort within the original banks. There are no extant remains on the ground, but the fort is partly visible on air photos. With the exception of two earlier fragments, all pottery found was of late 4th cent. date a high proportion being from the inner ditch. See AO/LP/62/102. Within the fort are two medieval wall fragments (incorporating Roman stones.) 40 ft & 15 ft. at rt. angles to each other (a). (3-4)
MAGIS. Probably the Roman fort at Burrow Walls, to which the name GABROSENTUM (now ascribed to Moresby fort - NX 92 SE 4) was formerly applied. (5)
Much of the W side of the fort lies beneath a railway embankment; the remainder is in permanent pasture on a gentle NW- facing slope. Apart from slight traces of a spread ditch along the SE side and at the E corner, nothing survives of the fort above ground. (6)
Part of the fort circuit and inner ditch are also visible as earthworks on air photographs mapped as part of the North West Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey. Remnants of the monument appear to be still extant on the latest 1976 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. (7-8) |