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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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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