News Bite

Cramond excavation findings - an earlier fort?

Source: The Cramond Association
Date: 1/10/2010

The Cramond Association website mentions in outline the findings of the Edinburgh City Archaeologists recent dig at Cramond Roman Fort on the outskirts of Edinburgh (see our earlier Newsbite).

Finds include:

.... "two Roman daggers, a bronze cup, a couple of early Antonine coins, various other metalwork including metal work from leather Roman armour and barrel-loads of pottery."

Some of the finds are on display at the Maltings in Cramond.

Our earlier hopes that the excavation may answer the question of whether Cramond enjoyed unbroken occupation from the Antonine Period through to the Severan period still remain unanswered, however the dig found yet further evidence of earlier defences located beneath the Antonine works (first mentioned in RCAHMS reports in 1996 and 1998) though it still does not yet confirm definitively if these are Roman.



http://www.cramondassociation.org.uk/news.htm