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INNERWICK.] -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. -- [MORHAM.

be found on probing to a depth of 6 or 8 inches.
About 30 yards west of the second cairn is
another 18 feet in diameter and 1 foot in
height. Two other small cairns are placed
about 30 yards to the south-west of the last.

xvii. N.W. (unnoted). 14 June 1913.

MISCELLANEOUS.

92. Dovecot.-In a field, 1 mile north of
Innerwick and 400 yards west of the Free
Church, is a late rectangular dovecot measuring
30 feet by 20 feet externally. It is not provided
with a stringcourse, which is unusual. The
walls are of light coloured freestone, rubble
built and covered with roughcast; the gables are
crow-stepped. The roof is of timber and is
slated. Two modern windows have been
pierced in the front wall above the entrance.

xii. N.E. (unnoted). 25 May 1920.

93. The Witches Knowe, Single Knowes
Field, Innerwick Farm.-Some 500 yards east
of the dwelling house on Innerwick Farm and
nearly 200 yards south of the public road, in a
field called Single Knowes field, is a slightly
rising piece of ground known as the Witches
Knowe, on which a number of witches are said
to have been burnt.

xii. N.E. (unnoted). 26 June 1913.

SITES.

94. Fort, Thorntonloch.-About 350 yards
south-south-east of Thorntonloch, on the right
bank of the mouth of the Thornton Burn, a dry
season reveals among the crop the lines of a
promontory fort occupying a bank which falls
30 to 40 feet on the north and west, but slopes
more gradually on the other sides. The area
enclosed measures 90 by 58 yards with an
entrance about the middle of the south side.
East of the entrance two trenches 36 feet apart
can be roughly discerned in favourable circum-
stances, the inner 12 feet wide and the outer
9 feet ; but to the west one only. Two hut
circles of about 15 feet in diameter are further
suggested within the enclosure.
See Proc. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club,
vol. xxiv., p. 106.

xii. N.E. (unnoted).

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The O.S. maps indicate the following sites:-

95. St. Denis's Chapel, Chapel Point, 1 mile
E. of East Barns. vii. S.E.

96. Thornton Castle, Thornton. xii. N.E.

97. Edinkens Bridge, Thornton. xii. N.E.

MORHAM.

ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURE.

98. Parish Church.-The parish church, an
unpretentious structure erected in 1724, lies
2 1/2 miles east-south-east of Haddington. In the
south wall is inserted a stone 4 feet long and
8 inches high, which is carved with a foliaceous
interlacing band and is possibly the side of an
early Christian cross-shaft. The belfry over the
west gable dates from 1685 and is of a common
plain Renaissance type.

BELL.-Within the belfry hangs a bell 15 1/2
inches diameter at lip and 12 1/4 inches high,
which is inscribed SIR , JAMES , STANDSFIELD ,
DONVM , EIVS , 1681. It is small but very
beautiful, almost certainly cast in Holland, but
seemingly at some foundry otherwise unrepre-
sented in Scotland so far as is known at present.
The lettering of the inscription is closely set
and has a rather heavy face, and the words
are divided by commas set in the middle of
the line, somewhat in the manner adopted by
Quirin de Visser of Rotterdam at a later date
on bells at Kells and Kirkcudbright Town
Steeple. Above and below the inscription are
ornamental borders in the best style of the
period, the lower and wider consisting of birds
with long beaks and outstretched wings among
conventional flowers and leaves. The general
style may be compared with the somewhat
similar ornaments used by Peter Ostens of
Rotterdam at Kinnett, Kincardineshire, 1679.1
The clapper is original, and the old crown
staple remains, but all the canons except two
have been cut off in order to enable the bell
to be fitted to a modern iron stock. The lip
is remarkably thin.

1 Eeles, Church Bells of Kincardineshire,
pp. 15, 33.

x. N.E. 10 July 1912.