Scheduled Monument
Gask House, Roman signal station and temporary camp 500m WNW ofSM1604
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 02/07/1936
- Last Date Amended
- 04/02/1997
- Type
- Roman: camp; signal station
- Local Authority
- Perth And Kinross
- Parish
- Findo Gask
- NGR
- NN 99025 19101
- Coordinates
- 299025, 719101
Description
The monument comprises the remains of a Roman signal station and adjacent temporary camp. The former survives as an earthwork and ditch while the latter is represented partially by upstanding bank and ditch and partially by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs. The signal station is already partly scheduled, but this proposal extends the protected area around the signal station and includes the camp for the first time.
The monument lies in woodland on the Gask Ridge at around 110m OD. The signal station forms part of a chain of similar monuments along the ridge. Its central platform, surrounded by a circular bank and ditch, would originally have held a timber tower. Adjacent to the S are the remains of a temporary camp which would have been constructed by the Roman army during a military campaign or during the emplacement of the Gask Ridge frontier system. The camp is roughly square with sides some 150m long.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the signal station and camp and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 190m ENE-WSW by 220m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
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