Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646692

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/646692

NN94SE 9.00 9999 4157 to 9665 4000. MR 16.

Formerly LIN 512.

NN 9999 4157 to NN 9978 4139 poorly preserved grass-covered trackway 3.5m wide bounded on S side by later wall.

NN 9977 4138 modernised culvert (NN94SE 9.01) 4.4m wide containing much military fabric.

NN 9977 4138 to NN 9893 4097 overlaid by modern road.

NN 9893 4097 well preserved military bridge (NN94SE 8) 3.9m between parapets.

NN 9890 4096 to NN 9737 4053 overlaid by modern road.

NN 9736 4053 ford (NN94SE 9.02) composed of laid stones forming level platform 7.0m wide.

NN 9734 4050 to NN 9707 4051 hollow way 4.0m wide.

NN 9707 4051 to NN 9714 4031 road 3.5m wide between banks with back drain.

NN 9714 4031 to NN 9665 4000 farm track on line.

Visited by OS November 1970; February 1975.

Initially, the military road now takes the form of a well-defined track, which then links with the line of the minor road coming up from Rumbling Bridge. It continues to ascend the hill above the left or N bank of the River Bran, and traverses the Ballinloan burn on a solid, military-style single-arch bridge (NN94SE 6) at NN 9735 4051. As it climbs the hill to the S of the Ballinloan Burn, it describes a long, sharp, hairpin-type sweep before descending more gradually.

W Taylor 1976.