Castle Craig
Road (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Castle Craig
Classification Road (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 152808
Site Number NT14SW 82
NGR NT 1341 4466
NGR Description From NT 1341 4466 to NT 1383 4449
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Kirkurd
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT14SW 82 from c.1341 4466 to c.1383 4449.
Aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1996) has recorded a low, sinuous mound (traces of an old road) running across a slope 250m N of Castle Craig (NT14SW 66). The road connected Castle Craig to the route of the modern A72. It is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Peebles-shire 1859, sheet viii) as a roadway running N from the castle and reaching arable land at NT 1360 4439, where it continues N for some 210m before curving W towards Smithyhill farmsteading (NT 1343 4468). This route is followed by a modern field boundary on the current edition of the 1:10000 map (1992). The road appears to bifurcate at NT c.1358 4460 and a sinuous stretch runs to the E towards the castle lodge (NT 1391 4449). This branch of the road is not recorded on either the 1st edition or modern OS maps.
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 8 December 1999
