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Biggar - Castledykes

Roman Road (roman)

What is recorded here

Castledykes near Biggar marked a Roman road, though the exact surface has vanished under centuries of grass and traffic. The name preserves a dyke or boundary line, suggesting the route cut through lived land rather than empty waste. People may have walked this line for trade, war or simple distance before written memory faded.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Biggar - Castledykes as Roman Road (roman). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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