The Solway Frontier: Interim Report 1976-81

Abstract

This summary report is intended to keep readers abreast of the more recent work on the Solway frontier; and at the same time to discredit many of the highly subjective views and unsupported assertions published by R. L. Bellhouse in the previous volume of this journal, and also to present a summary of the current programme being undertaken along the Solway Frontier. The number of errors in Bellhouse's article may be judged from his failure to cite the primary publication of the Bowness-Cardurnock linear defences, of which he appears unaware. Many of the points do not warrant substantive comment here and are accordingly relegated to a footnote. It is more important to present a positive survey of the current results, even if this is only in summary form pending eventual publication of a book on the Solway Frontier.