Wolfehopelee Burn

NT60NW 13 6069 0725 to 6087 0726.

(NT 6057 0719 - NT 6087 0726) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map, (1964).

Linear Earthwork, Wolfehopelee Burn: A stone dyke runs N-S along the belt of ground between the heads of the Wolfehopelee Burn and Battling Sike, and is joined by another which has mounted the right bank of the Sike.

From a point 12 yds SW of this junction, a linear earth- work runs W into the bog at the head of the Wolfehopelee Burn, while what is evidently the E part of the same work, interrupted by wall building and the improvement of the land, reappears on the line of the other wall 32 yds E of the junction and can be followed thence eastwards until it merges with the natural fissure at the head of Battling Sike. It may thus have had an original length of over 300 yds, of which the existing W portion accounts for 73 yds. Here it consists of a ditch with a greatly spread bank on either side of it. Two tracks of the Wheel Causeway traverse this part of the work and traffic has also passed over it; one if not both of the gaps has certainly been broken through the work after its construction. This earthwork may be an old land-boundary.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1945.

Part of this linear earthwork has been afforested, but is otherwise as described above.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 October 1960.

Only the E portion of this earthwork remains as seen by RCAHM; to the W of the wall junction at NT6069 0725 it has been destroyed by afforestation and road building.

Revised at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (BS) 22 September 1976.