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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CATRAIL Cat Rail
Cat Rail
Cat Rail
Catrail Picts Work Ditch
Catrail or Pictsworkditch
Catrail or Pitcsworkditch
Walter Scott Priesthaugh
David Scott Priesthaugh
John Beattie Dodburn
Chalmers' Caledonia
Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Roxburghshire
032.10 [Situation] South of White Hill.
From the remains still existing it appears to have been a vast ditch with a rampart on each side, formed from the materials thrown out of the excavation, It runs for about 45 miles in the counties of Selkirk and Roxburgh, from near Crosslee on the Gala to Peelfell, on the confines of Northumberland, See Page 2.
PICTS', WORK DITCH [Catrail], Cat Rail
Cat Rail
Cat Rail
Catrail Picts Work Ditch
Catrail or Pictsworkditch
Catrail or Pitcsworkditch
Walter Scott Priesthaugh
David Scott Priesthaugh
John Beattie Dodburn
Chalmers' Caledonia
Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Roxburghshire
032.10 [Situation] South of White Hill.
From the remains still existing it appears to have been a vast ditch with a rampart on each side, formed from the materials thrown out of the excavation, It runs for about 45 miles in the counties of Selkirk and Roxburgh, from near Crosslee on the Gala to Peelfell, on the confines of Northumberland,
See Page 2.

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Parish of Kirkton -- Plan 32, 10 Trace 2

[signed]
R. Stotherd
Capt. R. Engrs. [Captain Royal Engineers] 30th Oct 1858.

P. Munro
Lce Corp: R.E. [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]

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