398 Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy. 



boulders, where a few scrubby blackthorns scarcely maintain a 

 meagre existence ; but in whose recesses, where sheltered, the 

 tender Corydalis claviculata contrives to subsist. In stormy 

 weather, a strong rush of wind sweeps through this gulley. The 

 rock-paved path is only a sheep-track. Near the northern end, 

 the signs of ancient occupancy are unmistakeable, in the ruins of 

 hut-circles, and old folds, and the occurrence of stone-covered 

 oval tombs. All the fern-covered space betwixt this and Stan- 

 drop, and along the southern base of that hill is clustered with 

 fortlets, and other characteristic remains of the old dwellers 

 among these hills and hollows, now left to the shepherd and his 

 flock. The party keeping on the moor, above the entangling 

 thickets of brakens, move in the direction of the gate in the 

 march fence between Humbleton and Akeld. Several bushes of 

 Ulex Gallii were passed here. Adoxa moschatellina grows in 

 some of the sheltered hollows of the old hut circles. Hare- 

 hope camp appeared now close at hand, on the lower 

 eminence in front, between two hills ; and the head of 

 Monday cleugh which was now entered, opened up the road 

 to it. Pieces of iron-ore were picked up on the bank below 

 the camp among the soil, which had been disturbed by 

 the burrows of rabbits. The company were glad to rest for 

 a time on the grassy platform, and in a less feverish temperature, 

 than they had hitherto experienced on the march. 



Harehope camp lies at the head of Monday cleugh, a deep 

 craggy sided hollow winding round the south-west end of Stan- 

 drop hill ; and to approach it, there has been of old, a narrow 

 depressed carriage track, cleared of boulders, leading up the 

 ravine. The camp was inaccessible to an enemy on this side. 

 The road we had followed as has been said, joined this track at 

 the top of Monday cleugh ; and the depression continued in a 

 circular direction, at a higher elevation, so as to isolate the hilly 

 plateau, whose Upper portion the camp occupies. This might 

 serve as a moat in winter, for then it holds water ; as also during 

 heavy rains. "When we visited it, the young shoots of the 

 braken both in it, and other hollows among the hills, had 

 perished by standing too long in such temporary pools. An 

 ancient wall accompanying the ravine, encompasses the base of 

 the camp-hillock ; and following it, we encounter the approach 

 from the N.W. to the camp, which is a broad avenue of great 



