Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp

The Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp survives reasonably well as an upstanding monument despite having been ploughed over in post Roman-times. The rarity of temporary camps, and in particular examples with upstanding remains, identifies them as nationally important.

The monument includes the Roman temporary camp known as Bean Burn 1, located at the bottom of a gentle south facing slope in the valley of the Bean Burn. It survives as a series of upstanding earthworks. The camp is symmetrically planned and encloses an area of about 0.3ha. The earthen rampart is best preserved on the north west side where it survives to a maximum height of about 0.4m. There are four gateways, each visible as a slight depression in the rampart at the centre of each side. External defences can be traced outside the north and south gateways. Each of these defences consists of a low bank about 0.2m high and 7m long, but their ditches, like the ditch around the camp itself, have been levelled by cultivation. The area has been intensively ploughed, both in medieval times as evidenced by ridge and furrow, and more recently, with the result that the earthworks have been reduced and spread.