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Lanarkshire -- Lamington and Wandel Parish

Track of Roman Road continued - Wandel, this road can be traced no farther than the east margin of the plantation in Culter Parish. A Roman Camp Kettle, was found near the line of this road also a Bronze Whistle, fragments of Spears, and human skeletons. (See "The Graves" etc 39.12 Culter Ph. [Parish]) Mr Sim of Coulter Mains a local antiquary, supposes this portion of the Drove Loan to be on the line of the Roman Road.
Mr Irving in his paper on the camps in the Upper Ward states that the Roman Road near the farm of Loanhead is known as "Watling Street", but no person could be met with in the vicinity who knew it by that name or point out the line of it.
The ground to the North of the Drove Loan, and modern Trust Road, on the farms of Overburns and Whitehill is all under cultivation, and the present tenant (Mr Gibson) states that his ancestors have occupied these lands for several generations; and he never heard of any thing like a road or Causeway, or any thing curious being found during the progress of cultivation; moreover the ground to a great extent through these farms lies low, and is often flooded by the overflowing of the Clyde, though now embanked at several places to prevent such an occurrence, and it is probable that at the time of the Roman invasion this ground to a great extent would be a marsh, where a road could not have been made without a great deal of labour, and if it had been made, vestiges of it would have been met with during the progress of cultivation. The ground over which the Drove Loan passes lies high and dry, and could not be flooded under any circumstance except a regular deluge.