"Gask Ridge" Watch-Tower

Westmuir, Tayside

NGRef: NO0220 OSMap: LR52/53/58 Type: Watch-tower
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WSW (½) to Moss Side (Tayside) ENE (2) to Peel (Tayside)

This watch-tower was seen on aerial photographs taken by Prof. J.K. St. Joseph in 1960-62, as a circular crop-mark in fields on the farm of Westmuir. The site, 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.

See: Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall by O.G.S. Crawford (Cambridge 1949);
Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1961-1964 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. lv (1965) p.???.

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