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RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
This Roman watchtower is situated on the crest of a natural knoll, near the foot of Pikethaw Hill and about 30m S of the old road (NY39NE 29) that runs through Ewes Doors, a narrow pass linking the valley of the Eweslees Water to the SE and that of the Wrangway Burn to the NW. Circular on plan, the grass-grown earthwork comprises a conical mound 17.5m in diameter and 0.6m high, enclosed by a ditch 1.15m wide and 0.15m deep and a counterscarp bank up to 4m thick, 0.4m high -the whole measuring 25.5m in diameter overall. The summit of the mound measures 11m in diameter over a circular bank 2.7m thick and 0.15m high. It is broken by an entrance on the NNW leading out onto a causeway across the ditch. In the interior, which is 5m across, there are two shallow depressions on the NE and SE respectively, each measuring 0.7m in diameter and possibly marking the positions of two out of perhaps four corner-posts that once provided the framework for a 4m square timber tower. [...] |
8 December 2015 |
