Dere Street - in Scotland

In Scotland

Crossing the present day Scottish border near the present A68 at Carter Fell, there are the remains of a camp at Pennymuir and well preserved sections of the road as it also forms part of St. Cuthbert's Way to Trimontium near Melrose. Crossing the River Tweed at Trimontium the route follows the Leader Water to the foot of the Lammermuirs, where there is evidence of forts near Oxton and another well preserved section of road rises through the Lammermuirs over Soutra hill, and then on to British Din Eidyn, a stronghold of the Votadini tribe, and where the Romans held strategic garrisons at Cramond and at Inveresk to access the eastern end of the Antonine Wall.

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