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| | The Roman Gask Project |
 | | The maps would suggest, however, that the views would have been very clear with no borderline cases. | | | It is interesting to note, therefore, that all of the towers on the Ridge, no matter how poor their views north, have superb views over Strathearn and that, in many cases, these views would have been seriously worsened had the sites been positioned so as to obtain better views to the north. | | | The traditional explanation has been that the Ridge would have been heavily forested in Roman times and that the towers were designed to monitor, report on and, to some extent, control any movements across a cleared strip of ground around the road itself (Breeze, 1982, 62). |
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http://www.romangask.org.uk/Pages/Introduction/Gask_signalling.html
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| | Gask Frontier |
| | But it appears to have been short-lived, and to have been deliberately demolished by the Romans. | | | Futher towers, together with larger fortlets which appear to have been part of the same system, have been identified on the road which runs south-west to Ardoch and beyond, while the chain seems to extend north-eastwards at least as far as the fort at Bertha, on the Tay just north of Perth. | | | Sadly, many of the ‘Roman stations’ have since been ploughed out, but seven can still be discerned on the ground, and others have been picked out by aerial photography. |
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http://www.scran.ac.uk/packs/exhibitions/learning_materials/webs/56/Gask.htm
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| | The Scotsman - Scotland - Author 'moves' ancient battlefield |
| | However, a new book by Edinburgh University historian Dr James Fraser will claim the key battle happened much further south... | | | Different surveyors had different styles, and it is possible to identify armies by the design of the camps. | | | And while this may suggest the Romans did not completely conquer the tribes of northern Britain, Dr Fraser argues that they did not want to and instead would have made allies with native leaders to boost their control of the region and ensure Roman territory was not attacked. |
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=169512005
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| | Gask Ridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This would suggest that the forts were occupied for at most 6 years. | | | However, recent archaeology has shown that many of the forts comprising the Gask Ridge were rebuilt over time, sometimes twice, without any evidence of destruction through warfare. | | | Tacitus writes that Agricola was fighting in the area in 80 CE. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gask_Ridge
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| | Scottish forts were the first frontier of Roman empire |
| | Dr David Woolliscroft, the director of the Roman Gask Project, a long-term archaeological study which started in 1995, said his team’s research has uncovered traces of rebuilding work and artefacts showing the Gask Ridge was, in fact, built in about AD70. | | | Dr Woolliscroft said their studies have found that the wooden watchtowers on the wall, which stretched for 20 miles through the Perthshire and Stirlingshire countryside, were rebuilt, sometimes twice or more, suggesting that the Romans had stayed there for up to 15 years. | | | Previously, historians had believed the Wetterau Limes, north of the German city of Frankfurt, which was built in the early AD80s, was the first great frontier ordered by Rome. |
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http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotsman/roman.htm
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| | Roman Frontiers in Britain - The Gask Ridge |
| | A possible reconstruction of the Gask 'system' watchtowers. | | | The known system can probably be extended in both directions, but the dating evidence is still meagre. | | | The Roman road in Perthshire has always been of special interest for archaeologists. |
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http://www.britanniafilm.de/gask01.html
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| | ROMAN MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN NORTHERN BRITAIN |
| | These small encampments were spaced between 760-1,520m apart, and were seemingly built to replace the Glen forts, most of which were being abandoned at this time, and their garrisons perhaps withdrawn to the Continent. | | | This policy was continued in Britain around AD86 when a series of watch-towers were built along the Gask Ridge in Scotland. | | | A number of watch-towers were built along the road between these fortifications, the only discernable difference between those built between Ardoch and Kaims Castle (including Westerton) and the others along the Gask Ridge to the east of Strageath is that the former possessed two enclosing ditches and the latter group possess only one. |
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http://www.roman-britain.org/military/northern_campaigns.htm
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| | Roman Occupation of Scotland Re-Assessed |
| | The University of Manchester's Roman Gask Project has re-assessed the pottery found during earlier excavations at Dalginross and now suggest that the fort was occupied during the Antonine occupation of Scotland in the mid-second century as well as or even instead of during the 80's Ad as was previously thought. | | | Excavations by the Project of watch towers and other sites along the Gask Ridge have suggested that the earlier view of this frontiers history is too simplistic and that the area was occupied by the Roman army for longer, and that its occupation was more complex, than has previously been thought. | | | It also casts more certain doubts on the previously held view that during the Antonine advance into Scotland the only sites held north of the Antonine Wall were along the road north from Camelon to Bertha in Perthshire. |
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http://www.antiquities.net/gask.htm
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| | biab online: record result |
| | The Roman Gask project has been engaged since 1995 in an extensive campaign of surveys, excavation and archive work. | | | This volume is an interim report describing the progress made during its first five years. | | | It is in two sections; the first provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the Gask, while the second section reports on a series of field work programmes (including two dating from the 1960s and 1970s). |
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http://www.biab.ac.uk/online/results1.asp?ItemID=44135
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| | The Observer UK News Rabbit plague digs a hole in British history |
| | Archaeology is no longer safe in the ground because of rabbits, which challenges a generation of archaeologists brought up to believe that excavation is a last resort because it's expensive and destructive,' said Woolliscroft, co-director of a programme to protect the Gask Ridge frontier. | | | Woolliscroft is among those so exasperated that he believes any method to reduce rabbit numbers should be considered. | | | A list of sites, from the Scottish highlands to the Cotswolds, have been identified as under threat. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1553298,00.html
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| | Landscapes of conflict and power: Charachter of Warfare: Roman Army: Infrastructure: Roman Roads 3 |
| | This illustration shows a reconstruction of a watch-tower on the Gask Ridge, | | | Sited on a prominent ridge these high towers commanded the landscape and could have been used for monitoring people and exacting tolls. | | | Roman roads were integrated into a complex of forts and other military structures designed to observe native peoples and control their movement. |
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http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/aos1nu/archscot1/4_landscapes_of_conflict_and_power/character_of_conflict/roman_case_study/watchtowers.htm
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| | EAST LOTHIAN |
| | After getting past Dunblane and Perth, his troops were thought to have built a 20-mile long series of forts and watchtowers known as the Gask ridge, about AD 80. | | | The Romans were assumed to have only been able to stay in Scotland for about 18 months. | | | When Julius Agricola, who became emperor of Britain in AD 78 headed Rome’s first futile push northwards after his welsh campaign. |
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http://www.haddingtoncc.org.uk/firstmill.htm
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| | Northern limits |
| | Previously this status was conferred upon Germany's Roman border, which is now considered to have been built around 20 years after the Scottish scheme. | | | Though lacking the continuous wall, it is thought that the Gask is a direct precedent for Hadrian's Wall which was built in the 120s AD. | | | This year, we plan to stick our necks out still further and attempt to cover two forts. |
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http://www.hero.ac.uk/sites/hero/uk/research/archives/2004/northern_limits5971.cfm?view=print
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| | PARKNEUK |
| | The Parkneuk signal station is an exact twin to the Gask House signal station, which was examined in 1966. | | | There was a causeway across the ditch and a corresponding gap in the rampart on the north side facing the Roman road which ran along the Gask Ridge to the east. | | | 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. |
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http://www.roman-britain.org/places/parkneuk.htm
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| | Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust - Aerial Tour |
| | The first, a garrison fort for the Gask Ridge frontier system, was built in the late first century, perhaps as early as AD 80, with abandonment no later that AD 87. | | | The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s or 80s AD, forty years before Hadrian's Wall and sixty years before the Antonine Wall. | | | The second fort (Antonine I) was built about AD 142, with this occupation coming to an end within the period AD 155-8. |
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http://www.pkht.org.uk/aerial_tour/aerial2.html
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| | Evidence reveals peaceful Roman occupation of Scot - Ancient Roman Empire Forums |
| | Recent evidence from the 'Gask frontier' - the earliest land frontier in the Roman Empire - indicates that it was established in the 70s AD rather than the mid-80s, before being abandoned sometime after 86. | | | The initial Roman occupation of central Scotland was achieved relatively peacefully, perhaps with native consent, and it lasted up to 15 years - much longer than previously thought, according to new research. | | | Researchers have found that many sites saw major structural changes, suggesting lengthy occupation. |
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http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12&mode=linearplus
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| | mediaoffice - news |
| | The walk will explore the remains of some of the forts, fortlets and watchtowers along the Gask, including the excavations at Innerpeffray and finally meet up with members of The Antonine Guard, a Roman military re-enactment group, who will be able to demonstrate how Roman soldiers would have looked in Perthshire 1900 years ago. | | | The event is also a training exercise on archaeological surveying techniques for the volunteers. | | | In addition to the digs, there has been an extensive range of walks and talks, including one along the Gask Ridge, a 1 |
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http://www.scotexchange.net/print/news_item.htm?newsID=26495
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| | Ancient Scotland |
| | Twenty years later the frontier had moved north again, the Antonine Wall was constructed and some of the Gask forts were reoccupied. | | | Ardoch Fort is one of those early Gask system forts - possibly constructed at the time of the Battle of Mons Graupius (between the Caledonians and the forces of Roman Governor of Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola). | | | Around AD 80, some 40 years before the construction of Hadrian's Wall the northern frontier of Roman Britain was marked by a series of forts and watch towers along the Gask Ridge, a ridge of high ground running between Dunblane and Perth. |
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http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk/NEW/site.php?a=159
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| | it uses material from the wikipedia article "Gask Ridge" |
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| | Country Life : Country News |
| | Woolliscroft took a group of students there earlier this month and was shocked at how much the well preserved site had visibly deteriorated since last year. | | | Woolliscroft described a recent visit to Perthshire’s Gask Ridge where he ended up thigh-deep in a rabbit hole. | | | The whole Ridge is being considered as a possible World Heritage Site and Aroch itself is one of the finest examples of a Roman Hill Fort in this country. |
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http://www.countrylife.co.uk/countrysideconcerns/news/rabbits.php
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| | Roman Military Sites in Britain |
| | After the abandonment of Inchtuthill in the mid 80s AD it formed part of the Gask Ridge frontier until that was abandoned in the late 80s AD. | | | The traditional dating is from either before the building of Inchtuthill fortress or just after that fortresse's abandonment. | | | As it is on a coastal site it may be associated with Agricola's sixth campaign, where fleet and army acted together. |
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http://www.morgue.demon.co.uk/Pages/Gazetteer/SCOTNORTH.HTM
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| | Dunning Parish Historical Society Members Page - Cycling round Dunning |
| | The churches of Trinity Gask (left) and Findo Gask (right), separated by about 3 miles, are very similar. | | | To complete the answer to one of these enquiries I cycled the same evening to photograph Forgandenny church, in the opposite direction and in yet another Parish. | | | And then two unconnected enquiries about Gask (which is outside our Parish) gave me reason enough for another short tour: North to Duncrub, climb to Gask Ridge and return by Kinkell Bridge and Auchterarder. |
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http://www.dunning.uk.net/members/aug01
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| | Scotsman.com News - Scotland - UN honour for Roman site |
| | Dr David Woolliscroft, the director of the Roman Gask Project, said: "UNESCO appears sympathetic to the possibility, and we hope to have more to report in the future." | | | Historic Scotland is discussing the potential accolade with UNESCO, the United Nations cultural body, following evidence that the Gask Ridge across Perthshire and Stirlingshire is at least ten years older than previously thought. | | | The 20-mile-long series of wooden forts and watch-towers were originally thought to have been built in 80AD. |
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http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=216792004
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| | Inchtuthil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The relationship of these forts to the Gask Ridge defences concentrated further south is still unclear. | | | Additional, smaller forts were built further north and south at the mouth of each nearby glen forming what is now referred to as the Glen forts. | | | When it was excavated in the 1950s by Sir Ian Richmond a large pit containing more than 750,000 iron nails, weighing ten tonnes, was found. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchtuthil
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| | Newsletter 60 |
| | For those without Internet access here is a brief account of the work being carried out. | | | The Ridge at around 70 metres above sea level lies between the Scottish Highland massif and Fife, and forms part of a corridor northwards towards the coastal strip of richer agricultural land that extends to the Moray Firth. | | | The project is a long-term programme to study the Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire. |
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http://www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk/content/News_Letters/news60.htm
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| | The Stanegate |
| | On the Stanegate there is a striking lack of watchtowers (prooved frontier systems like the Gask Ridge or the Raetien border provide a close spacing of watchtowers) For the five possible watchtowers (Pike Hill, Walltown Crags, Mains Rigg, Barcombe, Birdoswald) there is still no clear evidence. | | | At the end or beginning of the first century Roman units withdrew completely from Scotland to the Tyne-Solway isthmus. | | | After AD 86 all forts North of Newstead were abandoned, but the Romans still stayed for several years in Lowland Scotland (compare to Gask Ridge). |
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http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/98-99/9808220d/pro/roman/hadrian/hadrian2.htm
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| | rogueclassicism: Roman Gask |
| | During my travails, it was announced on the Britarch list that the website of the Roman Gask Project had changed... | | | There's a pile of stuff there, including papers and aerial photographs. | | | they're studying a pile of Roman frontier fortification type things around Gask Ridge (Scotland). |
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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/RomanGask.html
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| | rogueclassicism: The Trojan Bunny |
| | As well as sections of Hadrian's Wall, other endangered sites include Ardoch, an ancient Roman fortress constructed around 80AD near Braco in Perthshire, and Gask Ridge, also in Perthshire, which has been identified as Britain's earliest Roman frontier. | | | One of the worst affected sites, however, is Fendoch Fort in Perthshire, which Dr Woolliscroft warns will be lost forever unless immediate action is taken to control the spiralling rabbit population. | | | Dr David Woolliscroft, an archaeologist at the University of Liverpool, has identified four important Roman sites in Scotland and the north of England which he says are under imminent threat from "undermining" caused by rabbits. |
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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00001293.html
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| | The Scout Report for Social Sciences - March 24, 1998 |
| | The Gask Ridge system is the earliest Roman frontier in Britain, and possibly the first anywhere; this project is the first attempt to systematically study the Gask Ridge frontier as a whole. | | | At the site, users will find an overview of the project, excavation reports and papers, maps and pictures, and bibliographies. | | | This site is a companion to a long-term research program by the University of Manchester's Department of Archaeology (UK) to study the Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, Scotland. |
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http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/SocSci/1998/ss-980324.html
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| | Hexapedia - Hadrian's Wall |
| | Fifteen years after completion of the Hadrian's Wall, a turf fortification, the Antonine Wall, was built to run between the Clyde and Forth. | | | A large proportion of the stone was reused in other local buildings. | | | Other fortifications The first Roman fortification in Scotland was the Gask Ridge, a series of forts North of the Clyde and Forth estuaries in Perthshire. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Hadrian%27s_Wall
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| | Heritage Regional, Directory |
| | The Roman Gask Project A long term programme to study the Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, Scotland. | | | Medieval or Later Rural Settlement The MoLRS Working Group discusses the understanding, conservation and management of medieval or later rural settlement in Scotland. | | | Modern World Wonders: Scotland's World Heritage J.K. Gillon's illustrated description of Scotland's UNESCO inscribed World Heritage Sites: the islands of St Kilda, centre of Edinburgh and Neolithic Orkney. |
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| | Crieff Historic Places to Visit |
| | The Gask Ridge Frontier System is the first Roman land frontier system in the Roman Empire, preceding the German frontier by 15 to 20 years, Hadrians Wall by 40 years and the Antonine Wall by 60 years. | | | The Gask Ridge Frontier System consisted of a series of forts, fortlets and watch towers between the Highlands and the lower richer agricultural lands. | | | It is particular important as the prototype frontier system allowing us to understand how Roman frontiers changed and developed over time. |
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| | Roman Army |
| | B.Hoffmann, 'Roman and Post-Roman Glassware Found in the Vicinity of the Gask Ridge. | | | D.J.Woolliscroft, B.Hoffmann, 'Excavations at Cuiltburn on the Roman Gask Frontier'. | | | D.J.Woolliscroft, B.Hoffmann, 'The Roman Gask System tower at Greenloaning, Perth & Kinross'. |
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| | Britannia |
| | "This web site, which is still under construction, has excavation reports, including plans and pictures, and bibliographic references for sites in the Roman Gask area. | | | "This paper attempts to describe the signalling arrangements of the Gask Ridge and the influence these may have had on the general layout of the system, in an effort to understand the purpose and context of the Roman line" By D. Woolliscroft. | | | Excellent introduction to Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, Roman fortifications along the Gask ridge and the Raetian limes. |
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| | Overview of Gask Ridge |
| | Stretching for a distance of 10 miles (16 km) between Perth and Crieff in the heart of Strath Earn, Perth and Kinross, the Gask Ridge is formed by rising ground that separates the Pow Water to the north from the River Earn to the south. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Roman Military Signalling: Books |
| | He is currently Director of 'The Roman Gask project', a long-term programme to study the Roman frontier on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire. | | | Dr David Wooliscroft is a specialist on Hadrian's Wall and an experienced air photographer. | | | Write an online review and share your thoughts with other shoppers! |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752419382
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| | AncientWorlds > Rome > The Palatine > The Province of Roman Britain > Gask Ridge Project |
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| | BUBL LINK: Roman archaeology in britain |
| | Illustrated account of excavations on part of the Roman fort at Church Chare, Chester-le-Street in County Durham. | | | Images and description of the discovery and excavation of a Roman house in Kent dating from 200 AD. | | | Information about a programme to study the earliest Roman frontier, the Gask Ridge system, build on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire. |
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| | AncientWorlds > Rome > The Palatine > The Roman army on the Frontiers > Gask Ridge Project |
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| | Sites Detail |
| | The site of a Roman watch tower, one of a series running between Ardoch and the Tay, along the Gask Ridge dating to the first century. | | | Accessed by footpath 1m NW of the village of Denfield on the Trinity Gask road off the B8062 Crieff to Auchterarder road, not signposted 58 NN 946 187. |
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