Frontier fortlet found

IMAGE: Historic Environment Scotland Of the 41 Roman fortlets that are believed to have been built along the Antonine Wall, the remains of only nine had previously been located – until a recent geophysical survey carried out by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) added a tenth to their number. The site in question had been mentioned by the antiquarian Robert Sibbald, who wrote about a fortlet near Carleith Farm in 1707, and it also appeared on John Horsley’s map from 1732. Since then, though, it had become lost, and excavations in the 1970s and 1980s were unable to find any trace of it. With the advent of non-invasive surveying techniques, however, a larger area can be analysed wi