. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . owards the S continue, in considerable degree, to beeither antiquated, mean, or of village-like Street is still to be the principal street, windingthrough both the modern regions and the old, and par-taking the character of both. A Roman road led from Dumfriesshire, through Gal-loway, into Ayrshire ; passed by way of Dalmellingtonand Ponessan to Ayr; traversed the site of the town alongthe line of what is now Mill Street; and seems to haveterminated in either a militar
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . owards the S continue, in considerable degree, to beeither antiquated, mean, or of village-like Street is still to be the principal street, windingthrough both the modern regions and the old, and par-taking the character of both. A Roman road led from Dumfriesshire, through Gal-loway, into Ayrshire ; passed by way of Dalmellingtonand Ponessan to Ayr; traversed the site of the town alongthe line of what is now Mill Street; and seems to haveterminated in either a military station or a harbour atthe mouth of the river. It could be traced in manyparts within the town, so late as about the beginning ofthe present century; is still traceable in the SW of Castle-hiU Gardens, within IJ mile of the town; and, till aboutthe beginning of the 18th century, formed the only lineof communication from Ayr to Galloway and urns, culinary utensUs, and other small objects,believed to be Roman, have been found when diggingfoundations in the town.—A castle was built near the7. Sea! of Ayr. AYR mouth of the river, about 1192, by William the Lyon,and is mentioned by him as his new Castle of Ayr, ina charter erecting the towm into a burgh about destroyed and rebuilt in the course of successivewars, it held a strong garrison in 1263, to watch the pro-gress of the Norwegian invasion under Haco, when it issaid to have been assaulted and captured by the Norse-men. In 1298 it was burned by Robert Bruce, to pre-vent its becoming a stronghold of the English army, whowere marching westward to attack him; but it was sorepaired before 1314 as then to be garrisoned by EdwardBruces army of full seven thousand men and mair,raised for his expedition into Ireland; and it is said, buton very questionable authority, to have existed down toCromwells day. No trace of it appears to have beenvisible for several centuries ; but its site is supposed tohave been
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