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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CHESTER KNOWE | Chester Knowe Chester Knowe Chester Knowe Chester Knowe Chester Knowe Chester Knowe Chester Knowe |
Estate map. Dated 1716 Bower's Hist. [History] of Melrose Page 118 Revd [Reverend] William Murray Minister of Melrose Ph. [Parish] Allan Freer Esq. BanKer Melrose T. J. Dunn Esq. Writer Melrose James Curle Esq. BanKer Melrose John Smith Esq. Darnwick |
008.01 | The Summit of a hill, on th farm of Kittyfield, And directly north. of, Pincushion plantation, there is on it, the Remains of a "British Camp", It has been nearly obliterated by tillage And otherwise - from what Can be traced of it, it would appear to have been of An oval Shape - And Surrounded by a "fosse" And two "Ramparts" - "About half a Mile from this Camp to the East" (i.e. a Camp above Gattonside village) "on the head of the hill there has been a large Camp with a deep ditch said to extend about three quarters of a Mile in Circumference Called the Chester - Know" -- Bower's History of Melrose. Pages 117 & 118. I thinK that this name should be given to the Camp and so do the authorities entered by me. |
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