OS1/21/18/71
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BODSBERRY HILL | Bodsberry Hill, Camp, Well. | G.V. Irving Esqr. F.A.S. (Newton Ho.), Joseph Keir (Newton Ho.), William Graham (Bodsberry End). | 047.14 | A considerable hill on the road from Carlisle to Glasgow, and the Roman Road, leading out of Annandale into Clydesdale. The whole of the summit of this hill is occupied with a camp of an irregular form containing two small mounds and a well and defended on the north west side by two ramparts and on the S.E. and N. sides by a single rampart. The ramparts of this Camp are not in good preservation but they can be easily traced on the ground. "The top of the hill forms a flat plateau of considerable extent which is occupied by the first camp I have to describe. The whole of the plateau is occupied by the fortification, which consists of a single rampart.On the north east side facing the ravine, and on the south and south east above the Clyde the hill is so precipitous as to be inaccessible in a military point of view. At one part on the east the access, though still difficult, is of an easier nature, and here there is a gate through which the road must have entered if it crossed the hill. At the gate on the south west the access is course than at the last described, so much so indeed, that one can hardly conceive what could be the use of a gate at that place; on the north and north west howence the hill slopes very gently, and we find thus in consequence |
| CAMP (Bodsberry Hill) | 047.14 | See Bodsberry Hill | ||
| WELL ['Camp', Bodsberry Hill] | 047.14 | See Bodsberry Hill |
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