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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 721304
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/721304
NT71SE 8 7686 1279 to 7693 1291.
(NT 7686 1279 - NT 7693 1291) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962).
Near the head of the valley down which Dere Street descends to Tow Ford, 250 yds W of Woden Streethead, there amy be seen two fragments of a massive linear earthwork consisting of a bank 17' - 21' thick at the base with a ditch about 11' broad on each side. The fragments are separated by a gap 316' wide situated at the bottom of the valley; the one on the N slope is 50' long, and that on the S, 100'; as each runs directly downhill they are not precisely in alinement. The bottom of the valley is marshy, but the drier parts of the gap are traversed by Dere Street and associated hollow traffic-tracks. This earthwork was probably a boundary-marker, the width of the gap being due to traffic and extensive washouts in the valley itself.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1938 and 1945.
As described above.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 13 September 1960.
No change.
Visited by OS (BS) 7 September 1976.
