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to have been ploughed. It rained heavily most
of the time I was on the summit. The church
I found as described by Mr. Ferguson. The

Abbey St. Bathans Church. (Turnbull)
East window is circular beaded and has
two trefoil headed lights surmounted by a plate
pierced by a quatrefoil. The mullion is modern.

Abbey St. Bathans Chapel.
The site of the chapel in a wood to the S. [South] shows
a S. [South] wall about 2 ft. [feet] high. Lying in the centre
is a broken ring of stone about 2’.6” dia [diameter]
which may have been the edge of a font.
The head of the effigy of the Abbess in the church
rests on two tasselled cushions. The wells
marked on the map show no features of Antiquity.

Strafontine (site)
There is nothing visible at the site of Strafontine
(etym. [etymology] Trois fontaines) but 3 terraces are
very distinct on the lower slopes of the hill
to the So. [South] It was too wet to attempt to get
to the top of Cockburn Law or Edin’s Hall.
Mr. Wilson entertained me most kindly
& gave me tea. I drove back to Grant’s Ho. [House]
where I again got the train & returned here
about 7.0. p.m.

6th August
Off before 10.0 after writing necessary letters &
rode via Ayton to Edington Hill. Sunny and
very warm. Found I had passed the site of En [Edington] Hill
toll 1/4 north of which a cup marked stone was
said to lie, so walked back leaving bicycle at the

Edingtonhill (Ld [Lord] Tweedmouth)
farm litterly failed to find a trace of it so retraced
my steps to the farm E. [East] of which the Schoolmaster had
noted the site of a camp. Of it I could see no trace either
nor did any one about the farm know of its existence.

[Margin] This is said to have been E. [Edington] Mansion & the castle to have stood near the river.

Edington Castle
Rode on to Edington Castle but o’er shot it. Met a
gamekeeper who directed me & also knew the stone
I was previously in search of. Edington Castle I
found was represented by one wall only forming
the N. [North] boundary of a market garden. The wall
was 86 ft. [feet] long with a return of 24 ft. [feet] at the E [East] end.
Thickness 3 ft. 8 ins. [3 feet 8 inches]. The masonry large. The windows
somewhat large & square, deeply splayed internally.
All however are built up & have fruit trees
trained against the outside. The gardener who
took me round told me he found many founda:
:tions in the garden. There was a small oven
entering from present level in the thickness of the
wall at the W. [West] end. The wall in places is still
about 8 ft. [feet] high. There is a fine old pigeon
house of the usual kind with sloping crow:
:stepped gables at the S.W. [South West] end of the garden.
It is very strongly built of large blocks of free
stone & the walls are three feet thick. There
has been a door inside the door checks and
probably a grill outside. The roof is tiled,
The masonry was so good that it

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