A Roman signal station dating from ca. A.D. 370. Comprising a ditch, an inner wall with bastions, and a signal tower, it was used until the early fifth century.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
A Roman signal station dating from ca. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a mansio / station site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman signal station at Scarborough is classified as a Roman mansio / station — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Late Iron Age and Roman period dispersed enclosed settlement 230m south east of Quartons Gardens (6.1 km), Roman signal station, Carr Naze (10.7 km), Romano-British settlement (19 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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