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Castledykes - Northwards
Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name Castledykes - Northwards
Classification Roman Road (Roman)
Canmore ID 71551
Site Number NS94SW 43
NGR NS 92882 44330
NGR Description From NS 9288 4433 to NS 9289 4468
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71551
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carstairs
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS94SW 43 from 9288 4433 to 9289 4468 RX 4.
The road out of the N gate at Castledykes fort (NS94SW 7.01) must have provided an exit into the open country to the NW. As it passed through the Antonine gateway, the road had at first been 10 to 12ft wide but later in the Antonine occupation it had shrunk to 9 to 10ft wide.
Traces of the cobbling of the narrower road still survived in the gateway. Between the gateway and the third north ditch there was no trace, but N of the ditch cobbling was uncovered which extended over a considerable area, but tailed off without leading anywhere. There were signs that the course taken by the passage through the north ditches had not always been exactly the same. The Flavian N gate lay considerably E of the Antonine gate. A road passing out of the Flavian gate would have on its W side a ditch 2ft wide and 2ft 6ins deep increasing to 3ft wide as it ran N. The ditch was traced northwards until it was swallowed up by the southern stretch of the western ditch of the Antonine enclosure. There was no corresponding channel of what would be the E side of the road. The gutter may have carried drainage out of the Flavian fort rather than have served as a road gutter, but, if so, its connection with a drain within the fort is lost.
A S Robertson 1964.
No trace evident on the ground.
Visited by OS (EGC) 13 February 1968.
