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Torwood - Raeburnfoot - Newstead
Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name Torwood - Raeburnfoot - Newstead
Classification Roman Road (Roman)
Alternative Name(s) Craik Moor
Canmore ID 71990
Site Number NT30SW 3
NGR NT 3000 0432
NGR Description NT 3000 0432 to NY 3072 0499
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71990
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Eskdalemuir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NT30SW 3 3000 0432 to 3072 0499 RR 3.
Formerly RR 89.
See also NT20SE 24, NY18NW 31, NY18NE 11, NY18SW 80, NY19SE 26, NY29NW 17, NY29NE 56 and NY29SW 49.
A 400-yard cutting which descends to the flat, ill-drained neck between Cherry Sike and Gowl Sike provides the material for a 380-yard embankment crossing it. A terraced roadway then ascends the shoulder of Craik Cross, but the exact form of the road on the summit is obscured by a hollowed, post-Roman traffic-track. Once over the summit, it plunges into a broad cutting in the peat, 30ft wide and 5ft to 6ft deep, of which the bottom, originally furnished with side-ditches and a metalled road, has been cut about by a deep hollow track on the SE side of the road. There is also a modern cart-track. The cutting is in three straight sections, each about 120 yards long. Emerging from the cutting, the road then runs to sheet edge as a massive metalled causeway over 20ft wide.
I A Richmond 1946; RCAHMS 1956.
NT 3000 0432 - NT 3016 0446 Mutilated course of roadway with traces of embankment.
NT 3016 0446 - NT 3029 0460 Terrace 7.8m wide.
NT 3029 0460 - NT 3034 0466 Slight hollow-way.
NT 3034 0466 - NT 3038 0472 Slight mound 4.1m wide by 0.4m high.
NT 3038 0472 - NT 3062 0491 Cuttings as described by RCAHMS on NE side of Craik Cross Hill.
NT 3062 0491 - NT 3072 0499 Causeway as described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 25 July 1962.
This Roman road has been left as a cutting in a forestry plantation, and its details are, in consequence obscured by long grass.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, SPH, PC), August 1980.
Scheduled as part of 'Mid Raeburn to Craik Cross Hill, Roman road & watch tower'.
(Extent indicated in Scheduling document).
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 12 August 2010.
ROMAN ROAD [NAT] (at NT 302 046)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2010.
Field Visit (August 1980)
Roman Road, Craik Cross Hill to Raeburnfoot
The Roman road linking Lauderdale with Eskdale enters the area of survey at Craik Cross Hill (NT 303 047); from this point to Raeburnfoot fort (NY29NE 5) it is remarkable for the scale of its engineering, which involved lengthy cuttings and terraces, and the use of the natural rock (laid bare by removal of the overlying peat and brash) as the road-surface.
RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1980
(Richmond 1946; Margary 1973, 461-4, no. 89)
Note (1997)
NT 3000 0432 – 3038 0472 NT30SW 3
Listed as part of Ladyward - Raeburnfoot - Craik Cross Roman road. See also NT20SE 24, NY18NW 31, NY18NE 11, NY18SW 80, NY19SE 26, NY29NW 17, NY29NE 56 and NY29SW 49.
RCAHMS 1997.
