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A map would be useful. Bastie 01:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A wall?[edit]

"Although the Gask Ridge was not a continuous wall" - it wasn't any kind of wall, the article says: "The Gask Ridge consisted of a series of forts and fortlets with signalling towers" - presumably the signalling towers were within the forts and fortlets?

There seems to be a lot of detail about what was NOT the Gask Ridge in this part of Scotland, and very little about the system itself. Why was it called the "Gask Ridge"?

There's a reference about halfway down the page to "The Gask Road" but the article doesn't say what this is, nor its relationship to the forts and signalling towers. Rambler24 (talk) 00:39, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Glenblocker fort[edit]

Though both have good features the Gask Ridge article has far superior content, maps and referencing covering a synonymous subject. PatHadley (talk) 00:31, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

-- I'm pro merge. Having a much improved Gask Ridge system page is on my list of things to do anyway. The glenblockers only exist as short-lived camps during the flavian, antonine (partly), and severan campaigns anyway and were created as part of the Gask Ridge System. Go for it says I. Zakhx150 (talk) 10:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

-- Pro merge. Having Glenblocker fort as a distinct article puts undue emphasis on the theory that they operated independently of the Gask Ridge system, which now seems dubious.--Wcoole (talk) 17:24, 25 September 2014 (UTC) Done[reply]

This seems like original research — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.151.41.174 (talk) 20:24, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

glenblocker[edit]

May I suggest it would be better to render this term as 'glen blocker' as per the http://www.theromangaskproject.org/?page_id=314?

-"although the more northerly forts are often called “glen blockers”" - "the so-called glen blocking forts"

It is the more correct English usage and also avoids distracting by confusion, in the context, with a notional Scottish place name.

JF42 (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]