Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746525

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT15NE 57 19610 59829

(Centred NT 1966 5981) There is a small cottage lying just to the N of the track which leads from the A 702 public road to Eastside farm N of where it crosses the Roman road (NT15NE 43.00).

The cottage is depicted roofed on the 1st Edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Edinburghshire), 1852 , sheet 17 and named 'Saltersyke', by the 2nd edition of 1892 it is depicted unroofed (2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Midlothian, 1892, sheet xiiiSW).

It is described the Ordnance Survey Name Book as ' a small cot house upon the farm of Braidwood. Formerly there was a farm of this name'. (ONB 1852).

Immediately to the SE is a small area of quarrying, consisting of two large trenches and several small spoil heaps. These workings are not depicted on the 1st edition of the OS map (ibid) and their purpose is unknown.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE) 18 September 1994.