About 100 feet beyond the soccer fields, it appears that the route turned east-northeast along this road, which was seemingly built in the early 1800s. Prior to that, Carluke wasn't a town. Before quarrying and mining made Carluke into a town, the main road from Motherwell and Wishaw to the southeast was the old Roman route along the ridge.
It seems that the road shown in this picture connected the ridge-top main road with the emerging town of Carluke. It seems possible that this early nineteenth century road was built on the route of the possible Roman road followed in this study.
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