'Bowmen's Road'
Road (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Bowmen's Road'
Classification Road (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 17923
Site Number NJ55SW 5
NGR NJ 4530 5170
NGR Description From NJ 4530 5170 to NJ 5375 5437
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17923
- Council Moray
- Parish Grange
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
NJ55SW 5 4530 5170 and 5375 5437.
(NJ 4530 5170) Bowmen's Road (NR)
(NJ 5375 5437) (Remains and Site of)
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)
Bowmen's Road: The remains of a road or entrenchment, the defensive side towards the south, supposed to have been made by the Scots as a roadway leading between encampments, and a defensive work in repelling the Danes. The road is said to have run from Montgrew (NJ4530 5170) to Knock-hill (NJ 5375 5437) via the hill of Silliearn.
Name Book 1868.
Revised at 1/2500 and possible remains surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 February 1964.
This feature is considered to be a drove road and will not be treated as an antiquity.
Information contained in letter from A Clarke 19 May 1965.
Field Visit (21 July 1943)
'Bowmen's Road', Edingight Wood.
A footpath, presumed to be the 'road' in question, runs parallel with the S edge of Edingight Wood about 100 yds from it. It showed no marks of wheels or runners.
Visited by RCAHMS (AG) 21 July 1943.
