Muir o'Fauld Roman Signal Station

In a heathery clearing among birch and pine woods near Trinity Gask, Muir o'Fauld is one of the better preserved watchtower sites of the Gask Ridge, the earliest known Roman frontier of roads, forts and towers, which ran 37 km from Glenbank to Bertha on the Tay. The ridge marks the line of the first Roman invasion of Scotland under the governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola in AD 79 and 80, and its sites were abandoned around AD 87 when the army withdrew. Here a square timber tower stood inside an earth rampart, ditch and outer bank. Today you can trace a circular mound almost 16 m across, its ditch and outer bank, and a causeway leading 15 m north to the Roman road, which survives as a track beside it. David Christison partly excavated the site in 1900. It is reached on foot along an unsignposted woodland path about 400 m from the minor road, through working farmland, so wear strong footwear.