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Greta in order to keep to slightly easier ground. 1) from Scotch corner before it joins the alignment, which it then follows most of the way to Greta Bridge, deviating just slightly to the north of the line as it approaches the R.

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In fact it travels a full mile and a half (fig. The line of the road as far as Greta Bridge is not quite on the single straight alignment as is stated by Margary and elsewhere (Margary, 1973, pp. Whether that is correct or not, the survey that underpinned the lines of the Stainmore road (RR82) was independent of the planning of Dere Street and bears no relation to it. The discoveries at Scotch Corner lend support to the idea that the system of survey lines underlying RR8 south of Scotch Corner, a system which seems to start at Bawtry or even further south, were set out whist Brigantia was a Client Kingdom, possibly at the time the settlement was established (see RR8a/b). The dogleg in Dere Street, as first surveyed by MacLauchlan in 1851 (MacLauchlan, 1852), was confirmed by excavation. It is also clear that there many pre- Roman trackways and hollow- ways beneath the Roman period structures but as yet they are not well understood. A short link road was also revealed, cutting the corner between RR8c and RR82 (fig. Several lengths of вЂnewвЂ™ road have been discovered at Scotch Corner, most notably a short extension to RR82 to the east of Dere Street, although as yet we do not know where it was heading or exactly when it was built.

The settlement may well have begun as a trading post, positioned to give access to the substantial oppidum at Stanwick as well as the trade routes west and north and established whilst the Brigantes were still a client kingdom of Rome. This major settlement was established at least ten years prior to the supposed Roman conquest of Brigantian territory in c.AD71 and seems to have been occupied for about 20 to 30 years, possibly becoming redundant with the rise of the town at Catterick and the settlement at Piercebridge. A late Iron Age to Roman period settlement had been identified in 2006- 7 to the north of the Scotch Corner Hotel (Howard- Davies et al 2014) but recent archaeological work during the A1 widening scheme has established that there was a much more substantial but short lived Roman settlement, focused around the junction of RR8 (Dere Street) and RR82, the Stainmore road.

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