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Plainfield. 



Plainfield is about one mile N.W. of Flotterton and near 

 Hepple. Plainfield Moor, a flattish, agriculturally unpromising 

 portion of Coquetdale, of considerable extent, was once common, 

 and when sub-divided was allotted to various neighbouring 

 estates ; part I believe going to one of the Farnhams, where Mr 

 Nicholson has picked up such a variety of the flint weapons of 

 the aborigines, as unfolded to us by Mr D. D. Dixon in the 

 Club's Proceedings, vol. X., pp. 347-349, Plates VI. and VII. 

 Plainfield Moor in its pristine state was one of the mustering 

 centres of Coquetdale, and was in 1715 the rendezvous of the 

 misguided Jacobites under the Earl of Derwentwater, when 

 they made their fatal rising. One section of it is still a field of 

 oldish culture and large area adjoining the Lower Trewitt 

 Moor, which continues under heather and bog. Unless Mr Tate 

 had commemorated the facts, we should not have been aware of 

 what occurred when part of the ground was reclaimed for culti- 

 vation. He derived his statements from Mr Joseph Grey, who 

 I perceive from the Poll Book, was farmer of Plainfield in 1828. 

 The date of the entry is about 1862. 



" Three barrows were opened at Plainfield — one a cairn which 

 was 25 feet in diameter, and was set round with stones, and two 

 feet high. "Within was a cist 5 feet long, E. to W., and an urn 

 7 inches high, jar-shaped, with chevron ornament — but broken. 

 The second about 100 yards N.W. on a 'knowe,' 12 feet in 

 diameter, set round with stones. Within were a cist and a large 

 urn with chevron ornament — but broken. Another east of Plain- 

 field in a field called the Bank — a low cairn with a broken urn." 



Low Trewitt. 



At Low Trewitt, near the burnside, on a rising ground in a 

 fine loam, a cist was found 8.W. by N.E. g j, y w 



(Fig. 18) 4 feet long by 16 inches broad, con- 

 taining a tulip-shaped urn, about 9 inches 

 (high ?) ashes inside (1837). Mr Tate's MSS. 



I think this is the tumulus and cist men- 

 tioned by Mr MacLauchlan, in a note to his 

 'Memoir,' p. 52. He says: "The Lower 

 Trewitt has much the appearance of having N h J E 

 been a considerable village : it was probably Fi 9- 18 - 

 the origin of the name ; for the marks of occupation about it 

 and above it on the moor, would lead to the idea that it was an 



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