114 Rev. John Walker on Greenlaw. 



monumental stones, one of which required to be lifted and 

 removed in excavating the drain. 



There were also two chapels belonging to the Abbey of 

 Kelso in the parish, at Halyburton and Lambden; but of 

 these, and their burying grounds, and the populous villages 

 connected with each, no trace whatever remains. There was 

 also another chapel in the parish at Rowiestone, which seems 

 to have been connected with the Abbey of Melrose, and this 

 too has been completely removed. Its burying ground, how- 

 ever, was discovered about nineteen years ago, when the field 

 in which it lies was being drained. It is o squai'c surrounded 

 on three sides by fine old trees ; but so completely, owing to 

 the frequent changes of the agricultural population, had all 

 memory of it been lost, that the original purpose of the 

 enclosure was quite unknown. 



A small part of the wall of an old building called Greenlaw 

 Castle Avas standing about fifteen years ago, in a field still 

 called the Castle Field, about half-a-mile to the east of the 

 town. That also, however, has been removed, and ploughed 

 over, and a, stranger crossing the field would not now know 

 that a building had ever occupied its site. Its last occupajit, 

 I believe, was Robert Home, Esq. of Greenlaw ('as tie, and it 

 was the birthplace, in 1746, of the eminent London physician. 

 Sir Everard Home. 



On the moor to the north of the town, there is an inter- 

 esting relic of unquestionably very ancient times. It is a 

 fortified trench called llaritz Dyke, which the plough has 

 defaced over large portions of its traditional course, but which 

 can be traced continuously, and very distiiictly, for nearly a 

 mile across the moor. It runs in a westwardly direction 

 towards Boonhill, and towards an old camp called " Ilare- 

 faulds," on the hill of Bly the, in Lauderdale. Some portions 

 of it have been obliterated by the cultivation of the soil only 

 a few years ago, but it can still be farther traced at a place 

 near to Thorny Dyke, in the parish of Westruther ; also, on 

 the moor in the farm of Corsbie, and on the descent from 

 the camp on Blythe Hill ; and there is a tradition that it 

 extended eastward as far as the Tweed, near to Berwick. 

 There is on the moor, also, about two miles west of the town, 

 and in evident connection with it, on a bold point at the 

 junction of the Fangriss with the Blackadder, an ancient 

 military station or British camp, called " Blackcastle Rings," 

 very strongly fortified with a double rampart and fosse on its 

 north and only assailable side, and interesting, as still shewing 



