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| Camp | British Camp | Mr Snaith | About 27 chains N | This is the remains of an ancient British Camp | ||
| (Remains of) | British Camp | Mr Ferguson | of Greenchesters | and is the spot where the scots were entrenched | ||
| British Camp | Mr Heron & Parish Plans | previous to the Battle of Otterburn and is generally | ||||
| (Site of) | believed to have been a Camp long before the | |||||
| period of that Conflict and was admirably selected | ||||||
| by the Scots leader on that |
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| commanding situation upon a lofty eminence which | ||||||
| forms a kind of promontory jutting out to the South | ||||||
| West from the high land behind and commands | ||||||
| a good view both up Redesdale and around the cent[ral] | ||||||
| parts thereof for several miles. part of the out wor[ks] | ||||||
| of this camp have quite disappeared and parts still | ||||||
| remains in good preservation | ||||||
| Tumulus | Tumulus | Mr Stewart | About 24 chains N | A remarkable cluster of large stones |
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| Tumulus | Mr Snaith | of Greenchesters | ||||
| Tumulus | Mr Pattison | |||||
| formed a Kind of Cairn |
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| Nothing remains but the foundation stones which | ||||||
| are placed endways in the ground and partly | ||||||
| covered with moss it is said that a number of | ||||||
| Tumuli were formerly scattered about the place | ||||||
| all of which have quite disapeared nor can th |
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| site be ascertained | ||||||
| Edw. Gillespie |
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