D. Milne Home^ Esq., on Ancient Camps. 457 



Edward I., were found close to the Railway Bridge on the 

 east side of the Till. One of the men who scrambled for the 

 coins, mentioned that they were deposited behind a large 

 slab overgrown with briars, which evidently had been placed 

 there with the view of concealing the treasure ; in all proba- 

 bility these coins had been hid by some men of King Ed- 

 ward's army, when on its march into Scotland, and who 

 never returned to lift them. Two or three hundreds of these 

 coins were found by the navvies when cutting the line of 

 Railway on the Till banks. I have one or two in my posses- 

 sion." 



With regard to the meaning of the word Snuke, it may 

 not be out of place to mention that Bailey, in his Dictionary, 

 says, that " to snook " means in old Scotch " to lie lurking 

 for a thing." Jameson says it means " to smell out as a dog 

 does," — " to search out insidiously," or " sneak out." These 

 definitions are quite congenial with the object for which I 

 suppose the camp at this place was formed, and for which it 

 was used. 



It may not be altogether out of place here to advert to the 

 old encampments which formerly existed, on both sides of the 

 Tweed, a few miles above Milne-Gradon, situated to the east 

 of the town of Coldstream. That on the south side of the 

 river, is immediately opposite to Lennel House, and goes by 

 the name of " Castle-Stone-Nich," which Captain M'Laren 

 of Coldstream, who first pointed out the spot tome, considers 

 a corruption of " Castle-don-Nick," being the castle on the 

 river at the nick. This spot consists of a small piece of flat 

 land, about 80 feet above the Tweed, protected by the bank 

 of the river on the north forming there an almost vertical 

 cliff, and on the east and south by a ravine, deep and narrow, 

 which by having cut through the straight river bank, gives 

 the appearance of a " nick." On the west, and S.W. sides, 

 ditches have been made, in order to afford protection, and 

 between these, the old entrance is still manifest. (See 

 sketch, p. 458.) 



Captain M'Laren informs me, that about 40 years ago, the 

 remains of a stone wall, on the flat, at the N.W. angle were 

 visible. On the north bank of the river, between the town of 

 Coldstream and Coldstream Bridge, when the present road to 

 the bridge was made, two ditches between embankments were 

 discovered, as Captain M'Laren also informs me. He states 

 that in one of the ditches deer's horns, and wild boars' tusks 

 were found, besides a stone font which he has now in his 



