188 THE HEADS OF BOWMONT ATER 



from Kelso Cleuch Back Burn, this work runs a short 

 space down the bank, and then mounts up and along the 

 face of the hill, and is marked on the Ordnance Maps as 

 "Entrenchment." The old Ordnance Maps showed it as stop- 

 ping near the inner Soutter Cleuch, but by a curious break 

 the course is carried up that stream a short distance, and 

 then runs onward again in the same direction as before. 

 Why this break is made cannot be explained, but something 

 similar occurred at the crossing of the Back Burn at Kelso 

 Cleuch, and there is a very good example of a similar break at 

 a burn in the line of a work running from the fort on the 

 Easter Eildon Hill to the fort on Cauldshiels Hill. 



Near the inner Soutter Cleuch, this Bowmont water line 

 joins another, which has come down almost parallel with 

 the river, but which can now only be traced upwards for a short 

 distance. The line thus united passes westward, crossing 

 the Alder Burn at the ford which was visited by the members 

 of the Club, where two small forts (No. 3) were placed to 

 command it. It is traceable to Calroust Burn which it 

 evidently crossed. On the west side of that burn or in the 

 lower valley of Bowmont it has not yet been identified. 

 Mediseval cultivation and the presence of the village of Mow, 

 are sufficient to account for its disappearance here. 



On the angle of the hill rising t ) Calroust Castles, there are 

 fragments of a track, which suggest a connection with that fort. 

 But at the head of Singingside Burn, a tributary of Calroust 

 Burn, on its west bank, there is a very well preserved remain 

 of considerable length which crosses the ridge and runs 

 down into Heatherhope. Doubtless this connects with a line 

 which passes, and also connects, with Buchtrig Moat, and 

 runs on into the vicinity of the large British Town on Wooden 

 Law, where it is obliterated by the formation of the Roman 

 Watling Street. 



To the north-east of Cocklawfoot, there is another track 

 of similar formation. It cannot now be connected with those 

 already described, but seems to begin at a spring or well-eye 

 which has been artificially widened out. Though this is 

 the only beginning now traceable, the probability is that 

 there was another line connecting with those already described, 

 and that what we now see was a branch sent out to the spring. 



