| 1006315 |
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 |
| 1129044 |
RECORDING |
MEASURED SURVEY |
HES surveyed Ewes Doors Roman watch tower between 8-9 December 2015 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:250. GNSS was used to record survey control. The resultant plan and section were redrawn in vector graphics software. |
8 December 2015 |
| 1014697 |
RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
Both John Henderson (1907) and James Ritchie (1917) refer to the remains of a stone circle at Tombeg, the latter maintaining that this standing stone is the sole survivor of the ring. However, no stone circle is shown at this location on either the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, or on the earlier plans of the Monymusk estate prepared by Alexander Ogg (1846) and George Brown (1774). Nevertheless, when viewed in profile from the east, this stone bears a remarkable resemblance to an orthostat shown standing in front of the partly demolished remains of an hitherto unlocated recumbent stone circle depicted in an oil painting by James Cassie dated to 1859 (Welfare 2011, 553). [...] |
6 October 2015 |
