tlEPOllT OF MEETINGS EOR 1908 26l 



AlKENGALL, EaST LoTHIAN. 



The fourth meeting was held on Wednesday, 26th August, 

 at Oockburnspath, where the members assembled at 9-10 a.m., 

 and were accommodated in Carriages supplied by a local 

 hirer. Among those present during the day were: — Captain 

 F, M. Norman, E.N., President; Eev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, 

 B.D., Interim Secretary; Mr N. B. Avery, Brackley ; Mr 

 Wm. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Misses Bruce, Gainslaw House ; 

 Sir Archibald Buchan Hepburn, Bart., Smeaton-Hepburn ; 

 Mr G. Or. Butler, Ewart Park ; Eev. Matthew Culley, Coupland 

 Castle ; Mr John Dodds, Bowden ; Mr A. H. Evans, and Mrs 

 Evans, Cambridge ; Mr George Hardy, Old Cambus ; Mr 

 James Hood, and Mrs Hood, Linuhead ; Dr James McWhir, 

 Swinton ; Mr Henry Paton, Edinburgh ; Mr Henry Eutherfurd, 

 Fairnington ; Miss Simpson, Coldingham ; Mr A. Thomson, 

 Galashiels ; Mr John Wilson, Edinburgh ; and Mr Thomas 

 Wilson, Eobei-ton. 



In bright weather the party drove through Cockburnspath, 

 where their attention was directed to the unique round tower 

 in the West gable of the parish church, and the market- 

 cross in the centre of the main thoroughfare. There is 

 nothing to determine accurately the date of the former, 

 which projects about 5 feet into the interior 

 Cockburns= of the building, and is about 8 or 9 feet in 

 path. diameter and 30 feet in height. A string 



course marks its upper section, above which 

 rises what has the appearance of a belfry, being lighted 

 by cross-shaped openings such as mark many ancient 

 battlemented structures. The tower is built of rubble entirely 

 different from that used in the construction of the church: 



