Line of old drove road

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 22 May 2016

This is a view downhill. To the right (north) are a wall and a fence that form the boundary of an adjacent field. To the left is a mound that is an old wall, mostly overgrown with turf. Just beyond it is the present-day path (Image), which is next to a slope leading down to the Pappert Burn. The present picture is a view along what I take to be the line of the old drove road here. The nearby present-day path closely follows the upper edge of the slope leading down to the Murroch Burn, while the older drove road instead consistently follows the edge of the wall that forms the field boundary. For much of its length (specifically, where the burn is not far from the field boundary), the present-day path follows the same line as the old drove road: see Image for an example. Where the burn meanders farther from the field boundary, the current path and the old drove route diverge, as at the point shown here. A view uphill from the same spot included an area that a burn flows through, exposing some stones to view; I found it tempting to see these as a form of paving, though I cannot tell whether they date from the days of droving, or from more recently: Image

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