Category: Sites & Frontiers
Forts, fortlets, camps, roads, frontiers, walls, watchtowers, built infrastructure, Roman towns.
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The Man from Inveresk: Reconstructing a Life on the Roman Frontier
New scientific research and a facial reconstruction offer a glimpse of one man’s life and burial near the Roman fort…
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Sma’ Glen Roman Watchtower – Guarding the Highland Gateway
The Roman signal station above Sma’ Glen watched the Highland gateway and may have communicated with Fendoch Fort.
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Parkneuk Roman Watchtower – Beside the Road from Strageath
Parkneuk watchtower stood on the western shoulder of the Gask Ridge, above the Roman crossing of the River Earn at…
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Westmuir Roman Watchtower – An uncertain link at the eastern end
Westmuir lies east of Midgate, near the eastern end of the Gask Ridge. Its position is particularly useful for understanding…
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Huntingtower Roman Watchtower – A lookout towards Bertha
Huntingtower, more fully West Mains of Huntingtower, is the easternmost watchtower in this series. It occupied the crest of a…
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Peel Roman Watchtower – A small enclosure on the approach to Perth
Peel lies on the southern side of the Pow Water valley, west of Perth. It is a small ring-ditched site…
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Witch Knowe Roman Watchtower – A Roman tower beneath a later name
Witch Knowe stands north of the Roman road between Gask House and Moss Side. Its evocative name belongs to the…
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Midgate (Thorny Hill) Roman Watchtower – A tower beside a separate enclosure
Midgate, also called Thorny Hill, contains two neighbouring features that must be distinguished. The small watchtower occupies the western part…
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Moss Side Roman Watchtower – Evidence for a bank and timber beams
Moss Side stood north of the Roman road, east of Witch Knowe. Its surviving appearance is less informative than its…
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Gask House Roman Watchtower – A small tower and an important pottery sherd
Gask House watchtower stood just south of the Roman road, beside a separate temporary camp. It is important both for…
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Muir o’ Fauld Roman Watchtower – Reading the surviving earthworks
Muir o' Fauld is one of the clearest places to see the earthworks of a Gask watchtower. It lies south…
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Kirkhill Roman Watchtower – A woodland earthwork beside the Gask road
Kirkhill lies south of the Roman road, between Roundlaw and Muir o' Fauld. The surviving earthworks mark a much larger…
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Roundlaw Roman Watchtower – A tower cut into the rock
Roundlaw stood north of the Roman road between Ardunie and Kirkhill. Its entrance faced south, across the road towards Strathearn.…
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Raith Roman Watchtower – A possible relay on the western summit
Raith occupied the western summit of the Gask Ridge, about 170 metres south of the Roman road. This is an…
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Westerton Roman Watchtower – An unusual entrance to a roadside tower
Westerton stood on a low ridge west of the Roman road, between Kaims Castle and Strageath. The position gave views…
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Shielhill North Roman Watchtower – A lookout on the climb to Kaims Castle
Shielhill North occupied a small knoll below the hilltop carrying Kaims Castle fortlet. The Roman road passed to its south-east.…
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Shielhill South Roman Watchtower – Rebuilding beside the Roman road
Shielhill South stood north-west of the Roman road on the climb from Ardoch towards Kaims Castle. Its entrance faced the…
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Blackhill Wood Roman Watchtower – A watchtower beneath a later camp
Blackhill Wood stood about 900 metres north of Ardoch fort. Here the remains of a watchtower intersect those of a…
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Greenloaning Roman Watchtower – A large timber tower south of Ardoch
Greenloaning, also recorded as Woodlea, is the southernmost watchtower in this series. It stood beside the road between Glenbank fortlet…
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Ardunie Roman Watchtower – Watching the Gask Ridge
Ardunie’s surviving earthworks, its position beside the Roman road, and a proposed signalling link to Strageath through Raith.
