OSMap: LR58
Type: Watch-tower
ENE (½) to Thorny Hill (Tayside)
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NGRef: NO0019 OSMap: LR58 Type: Watch-tower |
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WSW (½) to Witch Knowe (Tayside) ENE (½) to Thorny Hill (Tayside) | |
This site lies 70 yards (c.64m) to the north of the military road. Excavated by Christison in 1909 who recorded the post-holes and sleeper-trenches of a central structure 11 feet (c.3.35m) square surrounded by a turf bank 14 feet (c.4.27m) wide, which surved in places up to 3 feet (0.9m) in height. The entire structure measured 51 feet (c.15.5m) in diameter across the mound. This watch-tower along with others spaced almost uniformly along the Roman military road into the north-east formed an early Roman frontier along the Gask Ridge in Tayside.
