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Torwoodlee Golf Course

Flood Defences (Period Unassigned), Hollow Way(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Torwoodlee Golf Course

Classification Flood Defences (Period Unassigned), Hollow Way(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 54362

Site Number NT43NE 28

NGR NT 4786 3829

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Caddonfoot
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
  • Former County Selkirkshire

Archaeology Notes

NT43NE 28 4786 3829.

(Centered NT 4786 3829) Indeterminate Remains, Torwoodlee Golf Course: What seem to be traces of one or more hollow tracks may be seen running along the right bank of Gala water, below the level of the golf course, for 200 yds or more from the point, just S of Darny Cleuch where an old road (NT43NE 27) comes down to the left bank. Signs then appear as if a ruined wall or stony bank had swung away from the waterside and crossed the golf course in a WSW direction, to fade out as it neared the wood flanking the railway.

The late Mr J L Pringle of Torwoodlee stated that these remains were once clearly identifiable as a ditch and bank, and he believed them to have been connected with the "Picts' Work Ditch" (or Catrail - see NT43NE 27).

The ground has been so much interfered with by the making of the golf course, and old cultivation, that it is impossible to give any confident opinion regarding these remains.

RCAHMS 1957, visited 1946

This feature appears as a low bank, about 200 m long, with a ditch on its W side, and would seem to be possibly the remains of an old flood bank, at NT 4785 3830.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 12 January 1963

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