What is recorded here

Dean Castles 'fairy Road' is an unknown track in the Scottish Borders. It may have been a trading route, a military path or a boundary marker. The name suggests people once believed the road connected to fairy lands. That belief may have warned travelers the path led somewhere unfamiliar.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dean Castles, 'fairy Road' as Track (period Unknown). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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