Roman Fortlet, Greenock Scotland. DJI 3 Advanced Drone Flight

A short flight over a Roman mid second century fortlet. The site is situated on Lurg Moor behind the great former shipbuilding town of Greenock on the River Clyde, Scotland. The Roman fortlet on Lurg Moor, was probably built in the mid-2nd century AD was first observed on a National Survey air photograph in 1952. Measuring 160ft by 140ft overall, its E and W sides are well-preserved, the ramparts being 2 1/2ft high and the ditch 3 1/2ft deep. A causeway, about 15ft wide, runs S from the S gate for over 100yds It measures 52.0m E-W by 44.0, transversely, and has a broad, heather-covered rampart about 10.0m wide. This rampart is beat preserved on the E side where it has an internal height of 0.8m and an external height of 1.6m. Here the rock-cut outer ditch is also well-preserved, the scarp being 0.8m high. The causeway runs due S from the entrance in the S side of the fortlet, and can be easily traced for some 170.m, when it fades out on a rocky knoll above an area of boggy ground. It is about 5.0m in average width, and on places it has a distinct camber about 0.4m height. It has been built with small stones but here and there use has been made of natural rock outcrops.