Roman Watch Tower
Next, a Roman Watch Tower of the Gask Frontier System, from 40yrs before Hadrian's Wall has been assembled following the latest research, to a scale of 54mm (1/32nd). This consists of a wooden structure surrounded by an earthen embankment topped with wattlework parapet. Certain parts of this model are of white metal.
All the models are hand textured and painted using a variety of paint types and weathering techniques thereby making each and every model quite unique. The footprint of the model is 531mm wide by 565mm deep and 350mm tall.
Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, Scotland.
The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s or 80's AD, 40 years before Hadrian's Wall and 60 years before the Antonine Wall.
The Gask Ridge frontier is made up of a group of towers, forts and fortlets that run along a Roman road from south of Ardoch to Bertha. It is possible that the series extends further south to Doune or even to the Clyde-Forth isthmus.
Since German archaeologists have now re-dated the start of their frontier (which was once thought also to belong to the 80's) to the Trajanic period 15-20 years later, it now seems that the Gask system is the first Roman land frontier anywhere.
As such, the Gask acquires a particular importance, because it is difficult to judge how Roman frontiers changed and developed over time unless one can study the prototype.
The traditional view gave its abandoment at circa 87AD, but there is now evidence for a longer occupation. The traditional dating is from either before the building of Inchtuthill fortress or just after that fortress's abandonment. The Gask is the oldest known land frontier system anywhere in the Empire.