Field Visit
Date 20 October 1999
Event ID 926017
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/926017
NT71SE 84
Dere Street, Falla Knowe/Pennymuir
Roman Road
NT 7887 1054
The Roman road was recorded as part of the Kale Water Survey Project and is largely as described previously. The route indicated by the OS is confirmed, and follows a course which curves intermittently across an area of rough pasture while rising towards an elevation on the skyline.
From the public road as far uphill as NT 7520 1500, the course of the agger is uncertain, no stone being visible in the various cuts and trenches that have been made through the raised surface that is apparent. Rock exposures in the small quarry-pits (of apparently recent date) along the W side of the road show that the native rock here is small and loose brash of a type unsuitable for construction. The wall that runs alongside the road on the W is, however, of larger stones, which have presumably been robbed from the road.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 October 1999.
