Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
'Dere Street': Border - Newstead - Elginhaugh
Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name 'Dere Street': Border - Newstead - Elginhaugh
Classification Roman Road (Roman)
Canmore ID 71729
Site Number NT70NE 20
NGR NT 7906 0962
NGR Description NT 7906 0962 to 7903 0981
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71729
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Oxnam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT70NE 20 from 7906 0962 to 7903 0981 RR 2.
Formerly RR 8f.
Dere Street first enters Roxburghshire on the NE shoulder of Brownhart Law, some 400 yds NE of its summit but recrosses the Border 200 yds farther N. The modern track cuts through the shoulder in a deep hollow, leaving most of the Roman road, a pronounced mound now 18 ft wide, on its NE side. Some 45 ft W of the road the crest of the ridge is occupied by a small Roman signal-station (NT70NE 16); and just S of the signal-station the road and its accompanying hollow tracks traverse a linear earthwork (NT70NE 15) by a wide gap.
Visited 1944-5.
RCAHMS 1956.
Drove road on line.
Visited by OS (WDJ) September 1970.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
