14 Above is the view from the top of Middle Hill looking down to the mouth of the Hopecarton Burn valley, to where the burn runs into the Tweed. We will descend from the tops down the tail of the ridge that you see in the right foreground - off Dulyard Brae in other words.
In the picture below I have zoomed in to show where the Thief's Road comes over the face of Dollar Law to where we will join it on Long Grain Knowe. If you want a lengthy account of the old routes through the Scottish borders click here
Here however is an excerpt from that web page:
".... the most famous of all these hill roads is the "Thief’s Road." This is a broad, flattened, well-marked track without dyke or ditch, so called because it was used by the Border thieves who came and went between the upper reaches of Ettrick and Tweeddale. From the Merecleugh Head or Rodono Hill it passes by the Craigierig Burn, Dollar Law and Scrape to Stobo, a branch leading off to Drummelzier. Below Stobo it crosses the Tweed, and it is said that it can be traced through the Pentlands into Midlothian. From Rodono Hill it passes over to Ettrick, where it is known as the "Bridle path," and probably leads into the wilds of Liddesdale. The track is sometimes known as the "King’s Road," because James V went by this route to arrest William Cockburn and Adam Scott."