144 Forts, Camps, etc. in Roxburghshire. By J. Geikie. 



ently teen dug into, and otherwise tampered with. Measures some 300 

 yards by 240 yards or so. Traces of several intrencliments, which run 

 into each other here and there. JAMES GEIKIE. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The outlying districts on the Borders have hitherto been 

 regarded as utterly barren of interest, but are actually worthy 

 of the Club's deepest attention, the country especially between 

 Kale Water and the boundary Hne being crowded with memorials 

 of the primitive inhabitants, where to the uninstructed eye, in 

 summer time, there is little else visible than rough grass and 

 boulders, brown patches of heath and green brackens. We owe 

 it to Professor Geikie's fortunate forethought that they are hid- 

 den no longer. 



I may remark that Mr Purves's overturn at Linton Burnfoot, 

 previously and hereafter referred to, was not quite so unproduc- 

 tive of information as was supposed : a very fine highly polished 

 flint celt, and a peculiarly shaped stone-axe of mountain limestone, 

 ground all over— both Neolithic — having been preserved. They 

 are figured in the Club's "Proceedings," vol. vni. Plate vm. fig. 

 3. and Plate ix. fig. 3., and described at pp. 544, 545. Thomas 

 Pringle, the poet, in delineating the scenery of his boyhood, 

 thus alludes to the tumuli on the summit of Blaiklaw or Blake- 

 law in that neighbourhood : 



'* And, tinged with that departing sun. 



To Fancy's eye arises dun 



Lone Blaiklaw, on whose trenched brow, 



Yet unprofaned by ruthless plough, 



The shaggy gorse and brown heath wave, 



O'erjmany a nameless warrior's grave." 



Poetical Works, p, 124. 

 All traces of these are now obliterated. Equally unsuccessful 

 would be the search after five or six upright stones, forming a 

 circle, once existing on the farm of Frogden, which were 

 designated *' The Tryst " — from their being a rendezvous where 

 predatory hordes projecting an incursion into Northumberland 

 were wont to assemble. (New Stat. Acct. Rox. p. 152.). The 

 Eev. Dr. Leishman, Linton, communicates the following partic- 

 ulars about these vanished antiquities. " It is to be feared that 

 all traces have been effaced. Except the crowns of the Linton 

 and Graden Hills, every acre of the parish that is not mere bog 

 has been latterly under the plough. The 25-inch Ordnance 

 Survey marked about fourteen tumuli as then to be seen, all of 



