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Roman Road continued:-

states "that the Roman Road either crossed the top of Bodsberry Hill or passed through the defile at the N.E. base of the hill". Diligent search has been made over and around this hill, but, no trace or track of a road can now be seen to justify this assertion, and the ground here has never been cultivated. At Bodsberry End all trace of the old road is lost, and the modern road appears to be on the site of the old road until it arrives at the milestone which indicates Glasgow 43 and Carlisle 57 and a half miles, here can be distinctly traced the track of an old road about 20 feet to the west of the modern road, with which it runs parallel through the plantations, garden and lodge of newton House, and crossing the slackyard, and passing partly through another plantation, appears to run tangent with the embankment on the west side of the modern trust road from near Elvanfoot Toll to within 173 feet of where the modern road takes a sharp turn to the west to cross the New Bridge over the Clyde (From the milestone mentioned above to this point it is in some places defaced, and at others very faintly see, it was pointed out partly by Mr. Irving, and Joseph Keir, and described partly by William Cranstoun and partly by John Russell, the whole