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Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp
Map showing the Scheduled Monument area of Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp
Scheduled Monument (#1010951): Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp
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The Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp survives as a series of slight earthworks and buried ditches. The rarity of temporary camps identifies them as nationally important.
The monument includes the Roman temporary camp known as Sunny Rigg 2 which lies immediately south of the Stanegate Roman road. It survives as a slight earthwork with buried ditches. The camp is situated on the east end of a broad ridge with its northern defences on the crest. The ground falls gently away to the east. The camp was first identified as an earthwork from the air in 1951. It is a parallelogram in plan measuring about 86m from east to west internally by about 70m north to south, and enclosing an area of about 0.6ha. Gateways were recognised on the east, west and south sides, those in the east and west having external defence banks.
