OS1/24/31/31
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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BORELAND RINGS | Boreland Rings Boreland Rings Boreland Boreland Boreland Boreland |
James Murray Esqr Drochil Mr W Welsh Romannobridge Revd. [Reverend] Mr Charteris Mr Mitchell Mountaincross Valuation Roll New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] |
008 | [Situation] About 20 chains South of Boreland This is supposed to have been An Ancient British encampment of which the following mention is made in a Book lately published entitled Peebles and its neighbourhood by W Chambers 1856. Peeblesshire Abounds in Camps of the ancient British people who inhabited "the Gadeni" As the tribe in this quarter of Scotland was called. These British Camps are situated on the tops of Hills and are uniformly circular in form they seem to have been composed of at least two circular Mounds four or five feet high with a sunk ditch between the outer and inner Circle such were the rude enclosures in which a rude people took refuge with their goods during the Roman Invasion |
FORT (Remains of) [Boreland Rings] | 008 | This is supposed to have been An Ancient British encampment of which the following mention is made in a Book lately published entitled Peebles and its neighbourhood by W Chambers 1856. Peeblesshire Abounds in Camps of the ancient British people who inhabited "the Gadeni" As the tribe in this quarter of Scotland was called. These British Camps are situated on the tops of Hills and are uniformly circular in form they seem to have been composed of at least two circular Mounds four or five feet high with a sunk ditch between the outer and inner Circle such were the rude enclosures in which a rude people took refuge with their goods during the Roman Invasion |
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[page] 31Parish of Newlands -- Sheet 8 No 6 -- Trace 5
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