Dol D. MILNE HOME ON HIGH-WATER MARKS ON THE 
about 3 miles south-west from Wooler, is on a terrace at this height, which is 
also traceable along the same (the west) side of the valley for some miles, both 
north and south. Middleton farm cottages, Earle village, and Homildon church- 
yard are situated on it, and a shelf on Horsden Hill corresponds. On Dod- 
dington Hill, which is on the east side of Milfield Plain, a bench on its side 
occurs at 400 feet. 
























































A, Sandstone strata. 
B, Great Hollow in the Sandstone Rock, filled with water-borne pebbles and sand. 
According to that view, the whole valley had originally been filled with 
water up to the height of 400 feet, and the terraces above named were the 
beaches formed along the margin of an inland sea. 
In the upper part of the Cayle Water (a tributary of the Teviot) in 
Roxburghshire, there are extensive flats, at a height of about 360 feet above 
the sea, being the upper surface of huge knolls or mounds of sand,* through 
which the Cayle has formed nearly vertical cliffs, in some places about 100 feet 
in height. These large accumulations of sand, of course, imply that sea once 
stood here in comparatively recent (geological) times, and therefore corroborate 
the evidences existing elsewhere of a sea which reached to 400 feet, and stood 
at that level long enough to form indentations on our hills. 
With these remarks, I leave the question, as to the nature of the great body 
of water which covered Millfield Plain. That the sea has left traces of its action 
on the hills adjoining, at a height exceeding 300 feet above its present level, I 
think there can be no doubt. But, when the sea subsided to a height of 175 
* The Parish Churches of Morebattle and Linton are on the top of sandy knolls, adjoining the 
Cayle. Their singular position has given rise to legends, notice of which will be found in JErrrey’s 
“ Roxburghshire,” vol. i. pp. 41 and 43. 

