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West Mains Of Huntingtower
Watch Tower (Roman)(Possible)
Site Name West Mains Of Huntingtower
Classification Watch Tower (Roman)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Gask Ridge
Canmore ID 26918
Site Number NO02SE 65
NGR NO 0717 2465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26918
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Tibbermore
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 65 0717 2465.
A penannular cropmark c. 15m in diameter with entrance on the NNW was noted c. 230m NW of the farm and a little to the SSE of the presumed course of the Roman road (RR 9b). This may suggest that towers extended as far as Bertha. (Information from G S Maxwell.)
S S Frere 1986.
NO 0717 2465. Resistivity survey and excavation at the easternmost tower yet known on the Gask series (NMRS NO02SE 65) revealed an unusually small, c 16.8m (external diameter), V-sectioned ring-ditch (0.71m deep by 1.9m wide) surrounding a timber tower with at least two and possibly three structural phases. The ditch was cut through what may be the foundations of a roundhouse. The ditch had a single entrance, facing NW towards the assumed course of the Roman road. The tower was set right at the rear (S) of the internal area, opposite the entrance and astride signs of an internal turf rampart. So close was the tower to the ditch lip that its S side was over 1m shorter than the N face in order to fit within the ditch's curve, whilst a ditch recut had partly destroyed the primary post-pit of the tower?s SW corner post. The tower had been deliberately demolished at the end of its occupation but, unlike some of the other towers on the system, there was no sign that the remains had then been burned. No datable finds were recovered.
Sponsor: Roman Gask Project.
D J Woolliscroft 1998.
