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Just east of Dykehead Road, the long-known Roman route is to the right of the field boundary hedge on the left, down the present farm track in the foreground and continuing up the next slope along the field boundary trees. The current surface of the tractor track certainly isn't Roman since it includes broken bricks and concrete, clearly from a demolished building. There is a photo taken at this same spot in Professor Keppie's book "Scotland's Roman Remains" on page 40. A couple hundred yards beyond the top of the slope seen the distant center of this picture is where the newly discovered possible Roman route branches away from this route. When I first lived in Scotland in the mid-1990s I cycled on Dykehead Road about a hundred yards behind where this picture was snapped. The map mentioned that this was the route of a Roman road. I wanted to explore it, but at that time I didn't know that in Scotland one is free to roam on private farmland as long as one doesn't harm anything. In January 2005 I began exploring this Roman road. I explored quite a bit before I stumbled upon evidence that there might have been one or more roads branching off of the long-known Roman road.