More information : (NY 4854 6175) Milecastle 59 (GS) (Site of) (1)
"In December (1894) Mr Hodgson trenched a field halfway from Old Wall to Chapel Field. Fragmentary foundations of rough concrete (large and small stones embedded in lime mortar) loose pieces of good stone and bits of pottery testified to occupation. But the foundations were undatable. The pottery was certainly Romano-British". (2)
"At Chapel Flat the field-path ends and both works (wall and vallum) bend northward. The site of Milecastle 59 (Old Wall) is a quarter of a mile beyond the turn". (3)
Nothing visible; fragments of stone, Roman type brick and potsherds found near position of symbol. (4)
Now under pasture; no surface indications, and no further finds. (5)
A geophysical survey of 1980-1 revealed the south wall of the milecastle apparently in situ, but the side walls are ploughed away or robbed out. The revised position is slightly east of that on the OS 1:2500 map, same grid reference (6a). NY 4854 6175; there is no surface trace of the milecastle. (6)
The milecastle falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by English Heritage's Hadrian's Wall NMP. No traces of it could be conclusively identified on the aerial photographs available to that survey, although faint traces of what appeared to be partial rectangular features could be discerned with difficulty on photographs from four different sorties. However those marks, when mapped, appeared to form rectangles of different sizes and in slightly different locations, and it was not possible to to be certain that any of the marks represented the remains of the milecastle. For this reason, no features were mapped at this location. (8-11)
Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (12) |