96 On Edin's Hall, by John Turnbull. 



tlie camp or enclosure, a wall runs westwards and northwards 

 for a distance of about 180 yards, losing itself in the ravine or 

 narrow glen forming the west boundary of the platform or 

 shoulder on which the remains stand. A good many of the 

 stones forming the face of the wall still remain tn situ so that its 

 breadth and direction can be quite ascertained ; but the ground 

 on each side of it has been ploughed, so that if any road ran 

 alongside of it, all traces have been destroyed ; but on the un- 

 cultivated ground further west is a road which is still used, 

 though overgrown with turf. It stops on reaching marshy 

 ground, which, except in very dxj seasons, will not carry a cart. 

 It can, however, be traced through this bog to firmer ground on 

 the other side, and for a considerable distance westwards till it 

 is lost at the side of the Whitadder, near where the Allerburn 

 joins that river ; and fully half a mile from Edin's Hall. It 

 may have crossed the river by a ford, but there is no appearance 

 of it on the other side. The greater part of this road is not used 

 now, nor has been in recent times, but it is impossible to say 

 whether it was in any way connected with Edin's Hall. 



Within the enclosure or camp there is no well or water supply, 

 but on the hill, a few hundred yards above it, is a good spring. 

 Dr Hood, of Suhnyside and Mains, states that when he first ex- 

 amined the remains, there was a cut or conductor from this 

 spring to the camp ; the water from which was discharged by an 

 opening in the steep bank below the north rampart, where a 

 break in the bank still remains ; but as the ground through 

 which this conductor passed has been ploughed for many years 

 there is now no trace of it. There is no path or road from the 

 enclosure down to the river. 



On the top of Cockburnlaw is one of the circular camps so 

 common in the neighbourhood, and on its slopes are several 

 other remains, which have never been described, but these do 

 not faU within the scope of this paper. 



The articles found during the excavation were : — 



1. A stone ring or whorl, 1^ inches diameter. 



2. A hone or sharpening stone, 4f inches long ; 1 inch broad ; 



f inches thick. These were found in the chamber outside 

 the main building. 



3. Piece of a ring apparently of jet ; 2^ inches in external 



diameter. 



