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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MOSSY KNOWE Mossy Knowe
Mossy Knowe
Mossy Knowe
R Thomson Shepd [Shepherd ]Peel
J Riddal Lbr [Labourer] Peel
James Elliot
039 [Situation] Between Peel Burn and County boundary. A small hillock the surface of which is Rough Pasture.
RUSHY KNOWE Rushy Knowe

Rushy Knowe
Rushy Knowe
R Thomson Shepd [Shepherd ]Peel
J Riddal Lbr [Labourer] Peel
James Elliot
039 [Situation] On the County Boundary. A small hillock the surface of which is covered with Rough Pasture the Scot's Dyke runs over its summit.
CATRAIL Catrail
Catrail
Catrail
New Statl Acct [Statistical Account] of Roxburgh Thomas Ashcroft Note o' the gate
Alexander McDonnell Note o' the gate
039.14 [Situation] A remarkable double line of trench fortification which can be traced at intervals from near the junction of Gala and Tweed - SE by E [South East by East] to Peel Fell on the boundary between Castleton and Cumberlandshire believed to have been a dividing fence between the romanized britons of the Cumbrian Kingdom and their Saxon invaders on the East.
PICTS' WORK DITCH [Catrail] Pict's Work Ditch.
Pict's Work Ditch.
Pict's Work Ditch.
New Statl Acct [Statistical Account] of Roxburgh
Thomas Ashcroft Note o' the gate
Alexander McDonnell Note o' the gate
039.14 [Situation] A remarkable double line of trench fortification which can be traced at intervals from near the junction of Gala and Tweed - SE by E [South East by East] to Peel Fell on the boundary between Castleton and Cumberlandshire believed to have been a dividing fence between the romanized britons of the Cumbrian Kingdom and their Saxon invaders on the East.

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[Page] 125
Parish of Castleton
Sheet 39.4
[Signed] John McD [McDonnell] RE [Royal Engineers]

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