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| Muckle Moss | Muckle Moss | Mr. Woodman | 29 chains west of | A large tract of Waste from | ||
| Muckle Moss | Mr Auburn | Sandyford | which excellent peat can | |||
| Muckle Moss | Mr. Benson. | be obtained the ground upon | ||||
| Muckle Moss | Bruce’s Roman Wall | which this Moss lies is nearly | ||||
| level and the name is derived | ||||||
| from its great extent "Muckle" | ||||||
| in this locality being a | ||||||
| Synonyme of "Large" the greater | ||||||
| portion of this feature is in the | ||||||
| adjoining Parish. | ||||||
| Black Dike | Black Dike | Mr. Woodman | 72 chains South | A Stone Wall forming part of | ||
| Black Dike | Mr. Auburn | West of | the Boundary between the Parishes | |||
| Black Dike | Mr Benson | Sandyford | of Warden and Haltwhistle, it | |||
| Black Dike | Bruce’s Roman Wall | is supposed to occupy the Site of | ||||
| Black Dike | McLauchlans Plan & Memoir of the Roman Wall | an Ancient earthen rampart | ||||
| which probably was the Boundary | ||||||
| "Black Dike, This is an earthwork of unknown antiquity which is supposed to | between the Kingdoms of England | |||||
| have stretched, in a nearly straight line from the Borders | & Scotland immediately after the | |||||
| line from the Borders of Scotland near Peel Fell through | Romans evacuated this island; | |||||
| Northumberland and Durham to the south of Yorkshire. In a plantation on the | no traceable remains of this ancient | |||||
| hill side opposite to where we now are, looking south, the dike exists | work has been found in the Parishes | |||||
| in excellent preservation. The sench[?] or slack of it may be seen | hitherto examined, and the name given | |||||
| from the Wall on the western edge of the plantation, which is | to this Modern Wall is the only indication | |||||
| called the Black Dike Planting. The earth taken out of the Ditch is | that such a feature even existed. | |||||
| uniformly thrown on the East side where it forms an Embankment. The only | ||||||
| conjecture hazarded respecting its origin is that it formed | ||||||
| & Cumbria. The antiquity of the Cutting may be inferred from the | ||||||
| adjacent Parishes of Haltwhistle & Warden, and that it passes | ||||||
| in the North of England by Wm the Conquerer | ||||||
| was prepared to accompany Horsleys Brittania and in Kitchins Map of | ||||||
| ‘Bruces History of the Roman Wall. Pages 177. & 178. | ||||||
Note: Unsigned
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