History

In November that year he delivered a lecture to Filey's antiquarians in which he enumerated a number of findings made by "a painter belonging to Filey, named Wilson," who had found large quantities of roman pottery, bones and charred wood in the area of Carr Naze in the northern side of Filey Bay. The findings spurred more excavations, the result of which were five large stones believed to be altars or bases of pillars, a dog chasing a stag carved on one of them.

Further investigations conducted in 1920 resulted in the belief that the five stones found by Cortis were foundations of a wood watchtower, however, no further remains are visible nowadays because of long-lasting cliff erosion. It was concluded that the Signal Station was erected in the late 4th century and was abandoned or plundered around 400 A.D. The five stones can now be seen in the Filey Crescent Gardens.