Archaeology Notes

Date 2006

Event ID 683238

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683238

NO13SW 71 1433 3452 and 1431 3463.

NO 1433 3463 Resistance and magnetic surveys were conducted on a double-ditched enclosure which lay close to the line of a possible Roman road marked on Knox's map of Perthshire of 1850, N of the Tay, between the forts of Bertha and Cargill. The site was found from the air and looked like a double-ditched Roman tower. It also had a spectacular field of view taking in the Roman sites of Inchtuthil and Black Hill, along with a c 20km stretch of the Highland fringe. Only part of the ditch circuit has ever shown up, however, and as this did not contain the usual entrance break its identity was far from certain. The survey showed the site's dimensions to be identical to those of the double ditched towers at the S end of the Roman Gask system, further to the S. They also revealed breaks in both ditches, facing towards the N, but these were a little narrower than those on the Gask (2m as opposed to c 3.5m) and only excavation will show with certainty whether the site is Roman or not.

Sponsor: The Roman Gask Project.

D J Woolliscroft and B Hoffmann, 2006.