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Roman Road continued:-

the fork of two small burns known as Rowantree Grains and March Burn, and bending to the west appears to have been adopted by the Engineers, as the line for the more modern Trust Road, (from the point where it enters the parish to the point last mentioned the road is in good preservation as an antiquity and can be easily traces on the ground and appears to have been cut and partly laid with stones) which line it continues for about 20 chains, the Trust Road here leaves the line of the Roman Road, which begins to gradually ascend Errickstane Hill, which it crosses at a considerable elevation and about 10 chains from the top, descending this hill on the N.W. side it crosses the Fopperbeck Burn, and gradually ascends the south shouldr of Nap Hill, which it crosses at a considerable elevation, and descending on the S.W. side is again used as the line for the Old Trust Road. (It can be easily traced along the route last described and appears to have been cut and partly laid with stones). And is apparently used as the line for that road from Upper Howecleuch to Bodsberry End, where the Old Trust Road and modern Trust Road from Carlisle to Glasgow join. G.V.Irving Esqr. in his paper on the Ancient Camps of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire.