On Camps in Roxhvbrghshire. By Thomas Craig. o9t- 



of the series ia the district. I think this is not included in the 

 list. One of the camps mentioned by Professor Geikie lies to the 

 south-east of this large one, and must have been visible to those 

 who inhabited it, since it lies at a much greater elevation. The 

 small one mentioned in the list (page 143 line 3) and to which 

 reference is here made, lies on the northern side of Halter Burn. 

 II. Not far from the last mentioned, and on the same side of 

 the Burn, is another camp, even larger than it, but not showing 

 any peculiar feature to lift it out of the common category. 

 III. On a hill, or rather the off-shoot of a hill, a little to the 

 north of The Curr, there is a well-marked circle of limited 

 extent — so limited, in fact, as to make a person of slight 

 acquaintance with Roman or pre-Eoman remains somewhat 

 uncertain whether it may not be foundations of a comparatively 

 recent sheep-stell. It is surely not likely, however, that an 

 erection for the protection of sheep would have been placed in a 

 situation so high, exposed, and shelterless as that whereon this 

 circle stands. A little to the south-west of the circle, passing 

 over a rough kind of table-land, the eye lights upon first one 

 terrace and then another, which in the month of August shone 

 beautifully green, the bright verdure on these parts being in 

 striking contrast to the scorched and embrowned aspect all 

 around at the time. Is it within the bounds of probability that 

 these terraced places were cultivated at a remote period, and 

 that this freshness is partly if not wholly due to that circumstance? 

 At anyrate it suits one in a poetical and contemplative mood to 

 imagine the inhabitants of the little hut-dwelling to have patches 

 of cultivated ground near at hand, somewhat after the manner 

 of life of the modern crofter in the northern Highlands of Scot- 

 land at the present day. 



IV. On the farm of Lochtower there is a hill on the northern 

 slope of which is observable at certain seasons distinct traces of 

 what seems to have been a camp of more than average size. 

 The ground, though at a considerable elevation, has been for a 

 good many years under the plough, and the circle may not be 

 traceable at all times ; but as seen when the ground is in pasture, 

 the circle, which follows the slope of the hill, is remarkably well 

 defined. 



V. The camp on Venchen Hill shows traces of having had 

 triple entrenchments on the east side. Internally it is deeper 



