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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of ROMAN ROAD [Cramond House] | Roman Road | W. Clarke. Cramond Revd [Reverend] W. Colvin Cramond | 001 | The site or track of the great Military Road supposed to have been made by Antoninus from Pretorium in Lincolnshire to Cramond by the east end of the Pentland Hills at Rowbridge, from thence to Ravelston, through Davidsons Mains and lastly to Cramond where from the best authorities it crossed the mouth of the Almond and carried on a direct communication West along the Coast to Carridean, the tradition of which asserts it to have passed on the South side of "Mons Hill" the slightest track of which has not been discovered, but evident remains have been found on the erection of Stables at Cramond House and in other places were improvements were making in that estate, consisting of massive boulders and other stones inlaid,(what the people generally term Causeways) but after it left the South Lodge of Cramond House, very little evidence is given in proof thereof for its exact course but still in keeping with the course mentioned in " Woods History of the Parish", in a direct line for Ravelston about 1 1/2 Miles south of Davidsons Mains, the information was derived from W. Clarke a man of some intelligence and a native of Cramond, whose avocation is that of Gardener to Cramond House from the family of which he has derived his information, and especially from the late Lady Torpichen. continued [on page 63] |
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Parish - Cramond
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Roman Road - Site of
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