464 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



ar the names of the lands and teinds. — The hail kirk lands 

 belonging to the abbacie of Jedburgh, lying within the lordship 

 of Liddisdaill, viz : the lands of Dastoun burne, Cheifhops 

 (Cliffhopes), Over and Nether Syngdene, Huddishous, Ormes- 

 cleuche (Wormscleugh), Quteilrig (Wheelrig), Peil, Myredykis, 

 Belsches, Porter-landes, Abbot-shawes,with all their pertinentis. 



The lands of Deidwater and sicklyke, etc." 



(Hist, of Liddesdale, pp. 91, 92). Belsches lay elsewhere. 



Striking the hill on the right, the party were soon upon 

 Dawston Rig. On the flattish top there are great beds of 

 Cotton Grass (JSriophorum) which had ripened its seeds more 

 profusely this year than for many previous seasons. This was 

 the supposed scene of the Battle of Daegsastan. Mr Murray now 

 takes up the narrative. " The summit looks down upon the 

 slack through which the railway ascends from Deadwater to 

 Saughtree. Here the company were joined by two shepherds, 

 well versed in local matters, and by their aid a very thorough 

 investigation was made of the spot. There is no doubt whatever 

 of its richness in antiquarian interest. Across the ravine to the 

 east known as the Chaldron or Cauldron Burn, from the deep 

 holes worn by the water in the mountain limestone which forms 

 part of its bed, is the Wheel Rigg, where the Wheel Causeway 

 (a name here given to the Maiden Way) crosses the hill. A 

 little to the right is the site of Wheel Chapel, which was a small 

 ecclesiastical structure connected with Jedburgh Abbey, to which 

 the lands were originally attached, and of which only a few 

 traces remain. The Catrail or Picts' Wark Dyke, which crosses 

 the back-bone of Scotland from Galashiels to the upper valley of 

 the Slitrig, re-appears here, where it is quite visible debouching 

 into the burn, close to the railway, and to the British camps 

 which first attracted the notice of antiquaries to this place. Of 

 these camps there are three ; one of them high on the shoulder 

 of the hill, has been converted into a sheep-fold. Two others 

 lie side by side just under the line of the railway, and in one of 

 them, along with others more ruinous, is the most perfect 

 specimen of a British hut circle to be found in the whole district. 

 Meanwhile on the sloping ground above these camps, the 

 evidences of an extensive battle-field are unmistakable, even if it 

 had not been rendered certain by the finds of flint arrow-heads 

 and other weapons picked up from time to time. The eye can 

 easily follow the old earth- works, and the field, besides a huge 



