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Glenlochar - Gatehouse Of Fleet - Loch Ryan
Roman Road (Roman)
Site Name Glenlochar - Gatehouse Of Fleet - Loch Ryan
Classification Roman Road (Roman)
Canmore ID 246968
Site Number NX65NW 144
NGR NX 6142 5535
NGR Description NX 6374 5500 to NX 6000 5679
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/246968
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Girthon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65NW 144 6374 5500 to 6000 5679. RR 8.
Formerly RX 23.
NX 622 588 to NX 631 594 North of the Barley Burn, four main tracks with occasional interconnecting links may be observed: a) the mapped (1907) road; b) a hollow way; c) a terraced cambered road, the earliest in the sequence; d) a higher, partly hollowed track.
F Newall, D Newall and J Barrington 1981.
The Roman road from Glenlochar (NX76SW 2) to Loch Ryan via Gatehouse of Fleet is thought to follow the same track as the Old Military Road, which runs from the Bridge of Sark to Portpatrick (MR 23, see NX65NW 80).
Rickson, responsible for building the Old Military Road, informs us that he opened up a new northerly line from Ringford (NX 6886 5782, see NX65NE 67) to Gatehouse (NX 595 571, see NX55NE 24) via Irelandton Moor (NX 6355 5512) (Anderson 1968).
From Gatehouse perhaps near Girthon (NX 6105 5606) the Roman line would have possibly branched off of the Old Military Road track and led to the fortlet NX55NE 10 at NX 5954 5737. Newall (1981) has suggested a more northerly route along Barley Burn. At Gatehouse, St. Joseph has established the line of the Roman road running S of the fortlet to a crossing of the Fleet (Frere 1985).
A D Anderson 1968; F Newall, D Newall and J Barrington 1981; S S Frere 1985; A Wilson 1989.
