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Roberton Roberton New Statl Acct [Statistical Account] of Roxburghshire
Walkers' Map of Scotland
Blackwood's Map of Roxburghshire
[continuted from page 1] running N.N.E. [North North East] to River Teviot. Ale Water also a considerable stream issuing from a loch runs N.E. [North East] through En [Eastern] division. These streams are augmented in their courses by a great number of rivulets. Rankle Burn rising in the S.W. [South West] corner, begins a little below its source to trace the boundary with Ettrick. There are no manufactories in the district and no minerals are wrought. Cheviot sheep are reared to the number of 19,000 and also a proportionate amount of black cattle. Neither Railway nor Turnpike Road traverses the Parish. There is a Parish Church and School situate near the northern district. The land-owners are the Duke of Buccleuch, R. Chisholme of Chisholme - Allan Eliot Lockhart of Borthwickbrae - Hugh Scott of Harden - George Pott of Borthwickshiels - Thomas Stavert of Hoscote, - Archibald Scott of Howcleuch - James Johnstone of Alva - Robert Pringle of Clifton and Charles Riddel of Muselee. Population at the last census 670.
The Catrail - signifying in the ancient British the dividing fence or the partition of defence - termed also the Picts' Work Ditch - may still be distinctly traced from the West side of Parish S.S.E. [South South East] through both sections. It consists of a fosse and double rampart measuring conjointly about 20 feet in breadth in some places, runs through Selkirk and Roxburghshires from Galashiels on the north to Peel Fell at the En. [Eastern] extremity of Liddisdale on the South and respecting the origin of which, the general opinion entertained is that it formed a dividing fence between the Romanized Britons of the Cumbrian kingdom and their Saxon invaders on the East. A number of ancient Camps and Forts occur in both divisions of Parish some of which are square and others of an oval shape. In most instances the existing features are characteristic of what have been hitherto called Forts on Plans, - the name given to them however by the people of locality is Picts' or Peochs' Works. The remains and sites of several Towers have been shewn but of which little is known. Harden originally strongly fortified but now occupied as a farm-house was the ancient residence of the noted border chief "Wat of Harden". The structure now completely dismantled, excites however considerable curiosity from the allusion made to it by Dr [Doctor] Leyden in his "Scenes of Infancy". The Sites of Chapels which existed prior to the Reformation have been shewn.
Carlisle June 1859

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Ph [Parish] of Roberton -- Cos [Counties] of Selkirk and Roxburgh.

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