More information : [NY 07804520] Possible site (measured) for Roman signal station. (1)
There is no ground evidence of antiquity, but the indicate site, on a slight hillock, is topographically good. (2)
The sequence of four towers (17a and b, 18a and b) and two milefortlets (18 and 19) are presumed to have existed along the coast, but they are assumed to have been destroyed by erosion (3a).
The measured position of tower 17a given by authority 1 is on the summit of a steep slope facing seaward at NY 078 451, and as such it is a good situation. However there is no trace of a structure here and nothing is known to have been found. The possible location of this tower and other Roman defensive works at Allonby Bay given by Bellhouse (3) is dictated by a belief that the towers and milefortlets are a precise 547.5 yds apart which is demonstratably not so. Undoubtedly some erosion has occured which may have destroyed the works, but the degree of erosion and the position of the towers and milefortlets remains unknown (see NY 04 SE). (3)
Nothing could be noted at this approximate location on any of the photography available to the Hadrian's Wall NMP project, but reference is given to 1948 vertical photographs of this area. (4) |