Roundlaw

NN91NE 2 9580 1889.

(NN 958 189) A Roman signal station SW of Roundlaw farm, on the crest of a small hump. Air photographs (visible on J K St Joseph JO 71) show the traces of a circular ditch that surrounded the platform of the signal station some 50' across, and the marks of four post-holes set at the corners of a square, presumably to hold the main gate uprights of a wooden turret (St Joseph 1965).

In size and appearance it closely resembles the signal station at Moss-side (NO01W 14) (St Joseph 1955). A Flavian date is suggested (Rivet 1965).

J K St Joseph 1955; J K St Joseph 1965; A L F Rivet 1965.

NN 9580 1889. There are no surface remains of this signal station, the site of which lies in a field at present under crop.

Visited by OS (E G C) 10 August 1967.

(NN 9580 1889) Roman Signal Station (R) (site of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1972)

Excavated in 1972 under the auspices of the Hunterian Museum and Perth Soc of Natur Sci. Of particular interest in that the tower post-holes and the encircling 'Punic' ditch were rock-cut. The tower had measured about 12' by 14' and the ditch enclosed an area about 48' in diameter. There was a single entrance causeway, 6' across, facing the road on the S. On the inner side of the ditch there had evidently been a bank of turf.

There were no datable finds but comparable sites have produced 1st century pottery.

A S Robertson 1972.

There is nothing visible on the ground.

Visited by OS (J P) 29 April 1975.

There is no change to the existing record.

Visited by RCAHMS (IF), 7 November 1995.