OS1/30/10/16

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The Catrail or Pictsworkditch The Catrail or Pictsworkditch Continued [from OS1/30/10/15]
connected chain of defence, along its extended course, being only interrupted, in some parts, by the channel of rivers, or by impassable swamps, which formed themselves a sufficient fence - Along its ample extent, there are several forts of the British people, which were built, either on the contiguous hills, or on the neighbouring heights -- But, there are not upon the Catrail, as some Antiquarians imagine, a regular series of redoubts, such as gave strength, & ornament, to the Roman Walls --
Gordon, who has the merit of having first brought this curious remain into notice, absurdly supposes it to have been a limes, or boundary, which the Caledonians established, after their peace with the Emperor Severus -- He ought to have recollected, that this work is in the country of the Romanized Britons of Valentia, and lies far from the land of the Mæatae, and Caledonians --
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Parish of Selkirk -- W Beatty

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