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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 736930
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/736930
NT15SW 34.01 145 535
Trial trenching and watching briefs were undertaken along the route of a waterpipe development at the two points where it crossed the presumed route of the Roman road, at Stonypath, West Linton (NT 145 535) and to the W of Carlops (NT 157 557).
The course of the Roman road is visible in places between West Linton and Carlops as a raised causeway and/or as parallel lines of quarry pits on aerial photographic coverage. Although no traces of the Roman road were visible in either of the proposed development areas, extrapolation from the known lengths suggested that remains might be identified at these locations.
Extensive trenches were placed across the presumed Roman line in both areas, but no traces of metalling, ditches or quarry pits were found. Consequent watching briefs in the area also failed to locate the Roman line.
The West Linton crossing of the supposed Roman line lies within a ploughed field. It seems unlikely that the remains here would have been completely ploughed out, so it must be assumed that the road takes a different route, possibly the same as the nearby track.
CFA 1993.
