Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp

The Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp survives as a series of earthworks and buried ditches. It is a particularly small example of this class of monument. The rarity of temporary camps, and in particular those with upstanding remains, identifies them as nationally important.

The monument includes the Roman temporary camp known as Bean Burn 2, located at the bottom of a gentle south facing slope 120m west of the larger camp, Bean Burn 1. It survives as an earthwork traceable on the ground. The camp measures only 19m across internally and covers an area of less than 0.04ha. The remains of the rampart are about 0.2m high on average, and have been spread to a width of about 6m all round. It is best preserved at the north end of the east side where it stands 0.5m high. In 1966 the Ordnance Survey recorded the presence of four opposing gateways and the traces of internal gateway defences on the south and east sides. Two gateways can now be identified with certainty. The best preserved is in the east side where there is a roughly central gap, about 4m wide, and in the centre of the south side there is also a gap, though less well defined. A later field bank runs beside the east rampart, parallel with the modern road. Traces of ridge and furrow cultivation are still just discernible, running approximately north to south.