OS1/30/14/93

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Site of Dead Lake Site of Dead Lake Mr Russell Yarrow Manse
Mr Scott Altrieve Lake
Mr Telfour Dryhope Haugh
010.12 There is a piece of ground lying to the west of Yarrow Kirk, which appears to have been the scene of slaughter and sepulchre. From time immemorial it was a low waste moor till twenty five years ago, when formed into a number of cultivated enclosures. On more than twenty different spots were large cairns, in many of which fine yellow dust, and in one an old spear, was found. Two unhewn massive stones still stand about 100 yards distant from each other, and which doubtless are the monuments of the dead. The real tradition simply bears, that here a deadly feud was settled by dint of arms; the upright stones mark the place where the two lords or leaders fell, and the bodies of their followers were thrown into a marshy pool called the Dead Lake, in the adjoining haugh.

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Parish of Yarrrow
Sheet 10 No 12 Trace 2
Described by Sapper Montgomery RE [Royal Engineers]

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