Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp

The Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp survives well as an upstanding monument. The rarity of temporary camps, and in particular examples with upstanding remains, identify them as nationally important.

The monument includes a Roman temporary camp known as Seatsides 2 located on a shelf in a hillside on the south side of the Brackies Burn. The camp survives as an upstanding earthwork. The camp faces east and encloses an area of 3.4ha. Though somewhat eroded throughout its length, the rampart is generally well preserved, except along the west side where it only stands to about 0.2m high. Elsewhere, the rampart averages 0.5m in height above the bottom of its external ditch. Later drainage, both natural and artificial, has utilized the ditch of the camp, broadening it to a width of about 7m on the west side and cutting across the causeways of the gateways on the east, west and south sides. The north gateway is marked only by a gap in the ramparts, but an external defence survives at each of the other three gateways. Within the interior, towards the south east corner there is a small flat- topped mound, 6m in diameter and 0.3m in height. Although cut by a modern drain it is unlikely to be earlier than the narrow ridge and furrow that overlays this half of the camp.