Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . 1), in the parishof Edrom, in 1867. To preserve the structure the entrance wascovered over. Ancient marches or dykes.—In Berwickshire, as in Galloway andother parts of the south of Scotland, there are a number of ancientmarches or dykes which often can be traced for a considerabledistance across country where they have not interfered with agri-culture. They are usually formed of earth thrown up from the ditchwhich runs alongside the base. Harrits Dyke (Nos. 172 and 235),the best known example in the county, ca
Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . 1), in the parishof Edrom, in 1867. To preserve the structure the entrance wascovered over. Ancient marches or dykes.—In Berwickshire, as in Galloway andother parts of the south of Scotland, there are a number of ancientmarches or dykes which often can be traced for a considerabledistance across country where they have not interfered with agri-culture. They are usually formed of earth thrown up from the ditchwhich runs alongside the base. Harrits Dyke (Nos. 172 and 235),the best known example in the county, can still be traced at differentplaces between the Haerfaulds in Lauder and Snawburn in Greenlaw,a distance of 9 miles. Near the former place stones enter largelyinto its composition, but otherwise it is an earthwork. The BlackDyke (No. 246), still to be faintly traced about a mile to the east INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS, ETC., IN COUNTY OF BERWICK. XXXVll of Boon in Legerwood, is said to have run south at least as far asthe Mertoun and St Boswells road, a distance of 9 miles. Similar. constructions of much shorter length appear in other parts of thecounty. The Black Dyke (No. 4) in Abbey St Bathans parish,the second of this name, which shows a trench sunk a foot or twobelow the general level of the ground with no marginal mound, is XXXviii HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. said, with some probability, to be the continuation of the moundand ditch near Greenhope Burn (No. 112), which can be tracedfor I mile in the parish of Cranshaws. A wall and ditch, a milein length, are seen in Young Jeanies Wood (No. 126) in Duns of this class are probably of different periods, but somecertainly are comparatively late, even approximately modern. Belies.—Two important hoards of prehistoric relics later thanthe bronze age, of the late Celtic or Eomano-British period, whichare now preserved in the National Museum, fall to be noted fromBerwickshire. The first was discove
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