Outer Golden Pot
| Outer Golden Pot | |||
| Northumberland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Sky over Outer Golden Pot | |||
| Range: | Cheviot Hills | ||
| Summit: | 1,657 feet NT802072 55°21’30"N, 2°18’45"W | ||
Outer Golden Pot is a wide, shallow-topped hill amongst the Cheviot Hills, in Northumberland. It appears not so much an independent hill as a spur jutting from the ridge from which rise Thirl Moor (to the north) and Harden Edge to the west.
Across the top of the hill runs an ancient, Roman road, known as Dere Street, which runs to the Firth of Forth. Locally it is known as Gamel's Path and is a public footpath to this day. Gamel's Way joins two sets of Roman camps: two camps on the unnamed hillside south-east of Outer Golden Pot and a complex on the upper reaches of the Coquetdale, beside what is now the boundary with Roxburghshire.
More modern military use is eveidenced here though: the hill is within Ministry of Defence Otterburn Estate, used for live-fire training.
The remains of a mediæval memorial cross are found on Outer Golden Pot, in the form of a sandstone cross base. It is possibly base of wayside funerary cross to Sir James Douglas, who was killed in the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.[1]
