Harelaw Cleugh

With sheepfold by the burn and destroyed target 'tank' on the horizon.

With the devastation of the woods at Featherwood.

Over the Little Sills Burn. A fine sheepfold on the hill beyond.

Across the Little Sills Burn.

Towards Corby Pike.

At 368m with flush bracket number S7922. Looking up the valley of Sills Burn towards Featherwood, in the trees.

Just a few metres NE of the trig point this appears a shelter for walkers rather than a dilapidated sheepfold.

Possibly a replacement for the familiar white star signs - this one is on the site of a Roman camp one of several along Dere Street.

A road junction - straight on is really straight on as it is on the site of Dere Street, a Roman road heading for the Firth of Forth.

Road on Otterburn Ranges on the site of a Roman road.

Beyond the clearance cairn, across the Sills Burn is the site of a farm, shown on an 1899 map as a ruin.

Tarred road on the course of a Roman road to the Firth of Forth.

Horrendous ground beside Dere Street.

Downhill view down the Roman road.

Range sign opposite a shed on Dere Street. An 1899 map shows a house called Pity Me near here.

A Long Cairn occupies the crest of a narrow ridge in open moorland (fenced after scheduling) at about 300m above sea level. Orientated at an angle of 279 degrees, it is partially earth covered on the north side. It has a maximum height of 1.6m, length of 109m, and varies in breadth between 15m in the east and 8.8m in the west. The cairn was excavated in 1935 when a possible cist and a rock cut grave were found and cup marked stones noted nearby (later described only as water-worn depressions). Little was found and the excavator called the mound a 'monster of degeneracy'. It was not possible to date it securely to the Neolithic period. A stone-walled enclosure attached to the S side of the cairn is a later feature re-using stones from the cairn. Long cairns are the burial places of Britain's early farming communities and, as such, are amongst the oldest field monuments surviving visibly in the present landscape. Where investigated, they appear to have been used for communal burial, often with only parts of the human remains having been selected for interment. Pastscape: Link Archive Link Historic England: Link Archive Link

The south end of the range. The small circular woodland in the foreground is at Long Cairn.