Border - Crawford - Inveresk (?)
Quarry Pit(S) (Roman), Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name Border - Crawford - Inveresk (?)
Classification Quarry Pit(S) (Roman), Roman Road (Roman)
Canmore ID 71714
Site Number NT04NE 55
NGR NT 0925 4500
NGR Description NT 0925 4500 to NT 0999 4608
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71714
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dolphinton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NE 55 0925 4500 to 0999 4608 RR 1.
Formerly RR 7g.
There are traces of the mound of the road in the wood by Townhead farm (NT 093 450) and a cambered mound appears on the same line across boggy ground in a field to the N (NT 095 454). Although there are no further traces, this line joins the modern road at NT 0984 4589.
J K St Joseph 1952; I D Margary 1957.
NT 0925 4500 - NT 0928 4503 Modern road probably on line.
NT 0928 4503 - NT 0932 4510 Nothing seen in wood, but there is a rise in the fence at NT 0932 4510.
NT 0932 4510 - NT 0984 4589 No trace.
NT 0984 4589 - NT 0999 4608 Modern road probably on line. Gully in wood.
Visited by OS (DWR) September 1972.
Aerial Photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992) reveal a line of quarry pits SE of the modern road near Millburn Cottage at NT 098 455.
RCAHMSAP (RHM) 22 February 1995.
