What is recorded here
No visible fort remains in Camas. The ground has levelled or the marks disappeared from the saved description.
In level dry pasture. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with intervening fosse (Wth 2.3m) and external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.25m). Both inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) and external bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.25m) are best preserved SE->NW. External bank incorporates field boundary NNE->ENE. Interior level and under grass.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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