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Castledykes - Bothwellhaugh - Balmuildy (?)

Roman Road (Roman)

Site Name Castledykes - Bothwellhaugh - Balmuildy (?)

Classification Roman Road (Roman)

Canmore ID 72162

Site Number NS75NE 14

NGR NS 7970 5500

NGR Description From NS 7970 5500 to 7500 5757

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council North Lanarkshire
  • Parish Cambusnethan
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Motherwell
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS75NE 14 from 7970 5500 to 7500 5757. RR 5.

Formerly RR 78b.

Stewarton Street and Wishaw Main Street (A721) follow the course of the Roman road. This line is continued by the drive of Wishaw House (See Davidson 1952, plate XXVII,B for photograph), now obscured by residential building development. For a distance of about 2.5 km to the NW its course has been totally obliterated by a complex of iron- and steel-works, but the evidence suggests that, after a wide bend to the S, it resumes a north-westerly direction at NS 768 563, passing through Motherwell on or near the line of Dalziel Street and Roman Road.

J M Davidson 1952; RCAHMS 1978.

NS 7970 5500 - NS 7904 5551 Modern road on line.

NS 7904 5551 - NS 7879 5566 Drive of Wishaw House now surfaced; modern road on line.

NS 7879 5566 - NS 7811 5595 No trace in scrub.

NS 7811 5595 - NS 7567 5715 All traces of the road have disappeared under railway and steel-work development.

NS 7567 5715 - NS 7500 5757 Modern road on line.

Visited by OS (BS) April 1975.

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