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towards the isolated low broad capped hillock, with the Coquet 

 winding round its southern base, and the green camp surmounting 

 its northern end, and thus were mocked no longer. Most, I 

 daresay, were disappointed with its insignificance, for it requires 

 to be excavated to unfold its teachings. It occupies a dry plat- 

 form on a humble eminence of the native greywacke rock, al- 

 most surrounded by marshy ground. It is an earthen-ramparted 

 camp and has been disturbed by innovations or re-occupations. 

 Eecent attempts have been made to explore it, but nothing except 

 ashes was found. I am told that some drainers found a bronze 

 sword here, which the shepherd's children at Makendon lost. 

 There is apian of the Camp in Mackenzie's "Hist, of Northumber- 

 land," vol. II., p. 437 ; and a map with an account of it in Jeffrey's 

 "Eoxburghshire," vol. i., pp. 218-220, which all can consult. I 

 shall afterwards refer to Mr H. Maclauchlan's Survey in 1850-51. 

 But it is not so well known that its possession once formed a 

 subject of controversy between the English and Scots Borderers, 

 who each laid claim to it, or its precincts. This we ascertain 

 from "A Book of the State of the Frontiers and Marches betwixt 

 England and Scotland, written by Sir Eobert Bowes, Knight, at 

 the Request of the Lord Marquis Dorsett, the Warden General, 

 1550" ; Printed in Hodgson's ''Hist, of Northumberland," Part 

 III., vol II., pp. 208-211. "The meats or boundes of the Middle 

 Marchies," it says, "from the Hanging Stone south and westward 

 keepeth always the highte of the edge or fell to Heppeth gate 

 hede, an usuall place of metinge at Dayes of trewce betweene 

 the Wardeyns of England and Scotland. And lykewise from 

 thence to Kemylpethe [an old name of Chew Green and the 

 Watling Street adjoining] another place where meetinge hath 

 bene at dayes of trewce where theire is a litle parcell of ground, 

 in which theire hath bene bowses builded in tymes past called 

 Kemylspethe Walles claymed both by the Englishe borderers to 

 be of England and by the Scottes to be of Scotland . Insoemuch 

 as within the remembraunce of man theire was lyke to have byne 

 a great fraye betweene the Englishmen and Scottes at a day of 

 trewce holden at Kemylspethe walls clayming the same to be parc- 

 ell of Scotland before the assuraunce taken. And the Scottes 

 were forced to retyre from thence agayne into Scotland ground 

 before the ofiicers of England would graunt any assuraunce or 

 meete with the Scottes. And ever synce that tyme ye Eiddes- 

 dall men make their sheales neare unto y* ground in controuersy. 



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