'Dere Street': Border - Newstead - Elginhaugh
Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name 'Dere Street': Border - Newstead - Elginhaugh
Classification Roman Road (Roman)
Canmore ID 71904
Site Number NT36SE 66
NGR NT 3 6
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71904
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Cranston
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36SE 66 Unlocated RR 2.
Formerly RR8g.
No trace of any Roman road-work across this sheet. It presumably followed a course approximately along, or parallel to the modern A68 public road, passing the temporary camps at Pathhead (NT36SE 3 and NT36SE 17 ). After crossing the River Tyne at Ford, near the temporary camp at Woodhead (NT36SE 18), Hardie, quoting a 12th-century charter of Newbattle Abbey, considers that it coincides with the straight stretch of modern road that runs NW towards Dalkeith (NT 3887 6440 - NT 3756 6499). This suggestion is accepted by Margary and RCAHMS.
R P Hardie 1942; RCAHMS 1956; I D Margary 1957; RCAHMS 1988.
No trace.
Visited by OS (SFS) 15 April 1975.
NT 391 645 Deep cutting - river fordable
Information from OS (SPS) April 1976