Ardunie

Gask Ridge Signal Station

This watch-tower or signal station was discovered by Prof. O.G.S. Crawford on 1st June 1937. The central platform is 39 feet in diameter and lies to the immediate south of the road. This watch-tower along with others spaced almost uniformly along the Roman military road into the north-east formed an early Roman frontier along the Gask Ridge in Tayside.

Suspected Temporary Marching Camps

PERTH AND KINROSS … (4) Ardunie (NN 943 186): two overlapping features seen on aerial photographs 0.5 km SW of one of the Gask Ridge watch-towers, and proposed as the defences of small marching-camps, seemed likely on excavation to be field boundary ditches. …” (Britannia, 1999)

References for Ardunie

  • Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall by O.G.S. Crawford (Cambridge 1949);
  • Britannia xxx (1999) p.328.Topography of Roman Scotland North of the Antonine Wall by O.G.S. Crawford (Cambridge 1949);

Map References for Ardunie

NGRef: NN9418 OSMap: LR58

Roman Roads near Ardunie

W (0.5) to Raith (Tayside) E (0.5) to Rovndlaw (Tayside)

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