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MILECASTLE 27

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The site of Roman milecastle 27 at Low Brunton. It survives as a slight squarish platform with a maximum height of 0.4 metres, but it is poorly defined to the north and east. There is nettle growth within the area.

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[NY 9167 6998] MILECASTLE [G.S.C.] (site of) [T.I.] (1)

Milecastle 27 was located on April 5th, 1930, "347 feet to east fence on line of wall". (2) Excavation in 1952 proved it to be a long axis milecastle, measuring internally 60 ft. N-S and 50 ft. E-W. The milecastle is of type IV, ascribed, like type II, to the Twentieth Legion. No coins or inscriptions were found. There was only one piece of pottery but it was not dateable. (3)

Visible as a low but distinct mound in a pasture field. No stonework remains. Surveyed at 1/2500. (4)

NY 9166 6998. The milecastle survives as a slight squarish platform with a maximum height of 0.4m, but it is poorly defined to the north and east. There is nettle growth within. (5)

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The Roman milecastle was seen as a low earthwork, as described by previous authorities, and mapped from air photographs. (7)

Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

1:2500 1961

( 2) General reference

Original Mss. T. Hepple 1930 (in possession of Durham University)

( 3) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

(JP Gillam) 31, 1953 Page(s)165-74

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 RWE 11-JAN-66

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

Keith Blood/17-AUG-1989/RCHME: Hadrian's Wall Project

( 6) Scheduled Monument Notification

14-JUL-1997

(7) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR NY9169/15 (NMR 2172/1155) 27-Jul-1984

(8) English Heritage 2010 An Archaeological Map of Hadrian's Wall, 1:25,000 scale

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