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Eyemouth
tower, into the two faces of which, towards the grave
yard, have been inserted a number of old tombstones
with the skull & crossbones & other emblems of
mortality. A round headed door way may
have come from the old church said to have
been pulled down at the beginning of the last
century, as also a course of rope & nail head
moulding which is inserted as a sort of string course
below the tombstones. It is said that when the
old graveyard became full, the heritors solved
the difficulty of finding a new dumping ground
by superimposing six feet of soil on the old surface,
upright stones were brought up & reared around
the walls etc. but the flat ones remained beneath.
The tower at Gunsgreen is a thing of no account.
An old coach house with an embattled roof.
A small urchin, who guided me to it, told me
a legend of wooden canons inside which “they”
used for practice! Somerset’s fort is the only
real antiquity at Eyemouth and save the
earthworks nothing of it remains. It occupies
a headland to the West of the little bay at the
head of which the town lies. I had a passable
lunch at the “Home Arms” recommended by the
chemist, but dear enough as country inns are.
From there to Chester Hill 2 or 3 miles away was an
easy ride with the wind behind me. Here on the
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