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| ROMAN ROAD | Devils Causeway | Mr Joseph Fairless | 18 Chains S of | |||
| (Supposed Site of) | supposed site of | Hexham | Bingfield Comb | |||
| Devils Causeway | Devils Causeway | Mr MacLaughlan’s Memoirs of | ||||
| supposed site of | Watling Street | |||||
| Devils Causeway | Richard Gibson Esqr | |||||
| supposed site of | Hexham | A Roman Road of which there is | ||||
| Devils Causeway | Mr Coulston Grindstone Lane | only a Small portion Visible in | ||||
| Hexham | this parish, see 78/13 where the visible | |||||
| It seems probable that Armstrong in his Co Map has hit on the true junction of the | stones can be seen; the remaining | |||||
| Devil’s Causeway with Watling Street at Bewclay, where our Road "(Watling Street)" makes a | portion to the Watling Street is | |||||
| fresh turn of 25° more to the Westward and runs straight towards Colwell and Little | inserted on the opinions of the leading | |||||
| Swinburn. The ground at Bewclay is elevated, and being at a turn in the Road, would | Antiquaries; but not a particle of | |||||
| serve well for an Exploratory fort, not only for the Watling Street, but also for the supposed | information can be obtained from | |||||
| branch called the Devils Causeway. It would be in sight of Moat Law & Grindstone Law. | the inhabitants and there is no traces | |||||
| both exploratory camps overlooking the line of the the Devils | on the ground: The Site is a | |||||
| Causeway, and thus keep up a communication | matter of mere supposition | |||||
| between the two lines; it does not come out satisfactorily, however, that any remains can | ||||||
| be confidently traced as works of Defence, though the rough ground on the North of the building | ||||||
| look very like entrenched remains. The present road to the farm was not the ancient branch, | ||||||
| it is conjectured, but one now closed up by the side of the Wall, just where the turn | ||||||
| in Watling Street is made. if this be the Devil’s Causeway, it has more the appearance | ||||||
| of a British than a Roman Road. of this spot General Roy observed. At Bewclay about | ||||||
| two miles North from Portgate in Northumberland a branch called the Devils Causeway, goes off | ||||||
| the Watling Street to the right, keeping between it and the Sea." | Extracts from McLauchlans Memoir | |||||
| of the Roman Road called Watling Street | ||||||
| pages 22 & 23 | ||||||
| Thomas Jordan 2nd Corpl Rl Engrs | ||||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF
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