OS1/5/15/13

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
EDINSHALL Edinshall Continued New Statistical account
Mr John Bell Cockburn
Mr John Darling Cockburn Mill
010.06 [Continued]
Westerly direction for 50 or 60 Yards, turned northward, and followed the sweep of the hill till it reached the river --
Now it [is] Known that the buildings Called Burghs or Duns were the workmanship of the ancient Scandinavians, and that the Kind of architecture of which they were examples was common to that nation with the Saxons and other northern tribes; and, as it bore the name of Edwin, the most celebrated King of the Northumbrian Saxons, and as it was situated within his territories, which extended from the Humber to the Forth, we may Conclude that he was the builder of Edinshall - In that Case, it must have been erected between the Years 617 and 633, the period of Edwin's reign

This conclusion derives confirmation from other circumstances - In King Edwin's time, the mode of Architecture of his tribe could not have undergone any change, because his father OElla, was the first of his house who settled here, and because in the interim the arts of peace were not Cultivated -- It is recorded, too, that the art of building with Mortar or Cement was not introduced into Britain till after this time, -- the first Saxon buildings of

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Dunse Parish -- Sheet 10. 6 -- Trace. 6.

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