OS1/30/10/15
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| The Catrail or Pictsworkditch | The Catrail or Pictsworkditch | Continued [from OS1/30/10/14] This variation may be partly owing to its remains being more or less perfect -- In those parts, where it is pretty entire, on the North of the Rinkhill, on Dockcleugh-hill, on Carriage-hill, at Leapsteel, & at the Abbey, the fosse is 26 & 25 feet broad: in one place, which was measured by Dr [Doctor] Douglas, the fosse was 27½ feet broad -- But, in those parts, where the rampart has been most demolished, the fosse only measures 22½ feet, 20, & 18, & in one place only 16 feet wide -- In some parts - the most entire, Gordon found the ramparts, from 6 to 7, & even 9 or 10 feet high; and from 8 to 10 & 12 feet thick. the accidents of time, & the improvements of tillage have, however, destroyed much of them, & lessened the height of those, which remain, the singular objects of rational curiosity -- Dr [Doctor] Douglas found, that in many parts, the ramparts do not now exceed 3 feet high, some old farmers, in Ettrick Forest, informed him, that the remains of the Catrail have been much diminished, in their remembrance; & that the traces are becoming less visible every day -- In its original state, the Catrail must have formed a [Continued on OS1/30/10/16] |
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