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19th Augt. 1908.
A damp foggy morning. Left at 10.0 & bicycled towards
Cockburnspath (or Co’path as it is pronounced), to see
two tumuli marked as existing on the Moor above
Head Chesters & to work round by Penmanshiel.

(Co’path [Cockburnspath] No. 7)
The tumuli when I reached them after wading through
wet grass & heather, were of small account. The one
to the West had been excavated, no one in the vicinity
knew when, and the other was an inconspicuous
mound whose stony head just protruded from
the heather. Head Chesters being a humble house of re:
:freshment I regaled myself with a couple of tumblers of
milk while I endeavoured to extract information from
the owner of the cow. He informed me that there were
clear traces of a camp on Meikle Black Law about
1 mile back on my road. I shall try to take it on my

Meikle Black Law locally known as Bell Hill
way to Fast Castle. Leaving the main road at Old
Cambus School I took an execrable track named on
my map the “Laird’s Road”, to Penmanshiel. Green:
:side well (No. 12) showed nothing of interest. 3/4 mile
further on I turned aside along the moor to “Andrew’s
Cairn”. It is a low mound of considerable extent,
overgrown with whins. Some stones protrude from
the top of it and it has the appearance of having
been excavated. A mile on brought me to the

Penmanshiel Forts etc.
sites of forts on Penmanshiel. The first site (No. 16)
in a turnip field revealed nothing. The next
in the adjacent grass park “The Chesters” to the

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