G8 Report of Meetings for 1885. By Jas. Hardy. 



The name of the shielings is not entered in the charters, as one 

 might expect from Morton's Annals, p. 127 ; but the name is 

 given in the Kent Roll written before 1316, as Diuringdon (not 

 Dunrigdon as Morton gives it, p. 168), and it was then held of 

 them by William de Diuringdon for an annual payment of five 

 shillings with ward and relief. From about 1329-1334, a moiety 

 of the lands of Derington, held by Joneta Schaw, heiress of 

 William de Deryngton, which she resigned, was granted by 

 William, Abbot of Kelso, to Alexander de Redpeth at the annual 

 rent of 30 pennies. In July 1, 1624, George Lawder, heir of 

 William. Lawder, is retoured in the lands of Derington, estimated 

 in feu-duty at 5s. and 20 coins in augmentation. In Jan. 22, 

 1673, Joneta Home, heiress of Major John Home of Carollside, 

 held the lands estimated at 30s. per annum of feu-dvity. In Aug. 

 30, 1692, they occur among the accumulated lands of Andrew 

 Ker of Morestoun. 



At Cattleshiels there is a complete gap in the wood made by 

 the rush of the memorable gale of Oct. 14, 1882. Raspberry pre- 

 vails as an undergrowth. After passing the trees, the beautiful 

 weed, Galeopsis versicolor, was seen in bloom in a turnip field. 



Mr Robert Renton, since the meeting, has picked up on the 

 Cattleshiels moor the rare Saxifraga Hirculns. There would be 

 over a hundred plants at the place. This is an encouragement 

 for further researches. 



A botanical party here left for the Greater Dirrington Law, to 

 endeavour to gather the Bear-berry, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, but 

 were unsuccessful in their search. The Cow-berry, Vaccinium 

 Vitis-idaa, grows near the summit ; and very curiously the lesser 

 Winter-green, Pyrola minor, so plentiful in the fir strips at Long- 

 formacus, occurs in a barren state on the height of the hill. A 

 dismantled cairn occupies part of the top, probably like those on 

 the Twinlaws, which have been proved by excavation to be such, 

 funereal. The real form of these cairns was that of a mound, 

 more or less extensive, either conical and circular, or oblong- 

 oval, like the vast monument "The Mitten full of stones" on 

 Byrecleugh Rig, and not pyramidal like the recent erections on 

 the Twinlaws constructed out of the ancient British tumuli. 



Much grassy ground lying in the high gathered ridges of the 

 old agriculture was passed between this and Hurdlaw. On the 

 grounds of this place near the Dogden Moss, an old British 

 camp is marked in Armstrong's map of Berwickshire, 1771. 



