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said, and tapers towards the south. Its extreme length from 

 outer rampart to outer rampart is about 120 yards, its inside 

 length is about the half ; a gap tliat would form the north door- 

 way, I suppose, reuiains. Might a clump of rushes on the centre 

 line inside the camp towards the north indicate the existence at 

 the time of occupation of a well f The remainder of the ground 

 is hard and dry. 



After the Romans had disappeared Carterton seems to 

 have attracted some attention from the church, for there still 

 lives the tradition of a chapel having been here, evidence 

 of which is to be found in numbers of hewn stones built 

 into the steading, and in a field adjoining the house being 

 called Chapel Park. The stones are of a coarse white sand- 

 stone, of which there is no quarry nor any natural traces 

 in tlie vicinity, and it has been suggested to me that they 

 could not have been brought from a point nearer than Canonbie. 

 One of these stones, carved into what appears to be a head, 

 surmounts the present barn door, but it has been so obliterated 

 by the wear and tear of time that the lines of it cannot be 

 traced. Presumably it was of an ecclesiastical character. I 

 notice the other day that the Scottish Society of Antiquaries in 

 their recent excavations at Ardoch iiave found the remains of a 

 mediaival chapel inside the ramparts there. It is said that a 

 castle also existed at Carterton, but of this I can ofter no 

 evidence further than the tradition. But these traditions, and 

 the testimonies of the stones, and of the Roman camp, suggest 

 that in bygone times Carterton was, in this upland, rather wild 

 district, a place of some importance, a centre. 



A conspicuous object to a traveller up Dryfe Valley is 

 Hutton Moat, standing on an eminence to the right, its bold, 

 well preserved, conical outline showing clear against the sky. 

 The most inexperienced eye would detect at once that the hand 

 of man had reared it, so bolt upright does it rise, like a miniature 

 pyramid, on the green hill top. A writer has said of moats or 

 " motes " " that they have attracted so little attention that the 

 word is altogether ignored in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, and 

 Ithat history is silent respecting their use." It has been thought 

 .by those who have given some attention to the subject that they 

 are of two kinds — those constructed for defence, and those 

 constructed for the administration of justice, announcing the 

 laws to a rude people living out of doors, and putting them in 



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