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| Moot Law | Moot Law | Mr. Reid | North West of | A large Hill of Considerable | ||
| Moot Law | Mr. Russell | Carriers Way | altitude surmounted by a Trig. Point | |||
| Moot Law | Sir Chas M L Monck Bart | (having at one time been the site of a | ||||
| Camp. The name is probably derived | ||||||
| from the Moat or ditch thrown up | ||||||
| around it) see Wallis’s | ||||||
| Northumberland Antiquities Vol. II P14 | ||||||
| Mootlaw | Mootlaw | Mr. Reid | West side & adjoining | A small Farm House & offices | ||
| Mootlaw | Mr. Russell | the Carriers Way | taking the name from the adjacent | |||
| Mootlaw | Sir Chas M L Monck Bart | Hill | ||||
| Carriers Way | Carriers Way | Mr. Reid | 6 chains South of | An old Pack horse Road, now | ||
| Carriers Way | Mr. Russell | Moot Law | used as a Bridle Road | |||
| Carriers Way | Mr. Armstrong | |||||
| Camp | Mr. Reid | on the summit of | An old Entrenchment of an irregular form | |||
| (Site of) | Camp | Moot Law | it is mentioned in Wallis’s Northumberland Antiquities | |||
| Mr. Russell | as it has a commanding site probably it was used both | |||||
| Camp | as Beacon and fortification in the old times of the Borders | |||||
| Mr. Armstrong | (it Boundaries are now | |||||
| Camp | hardly traceable) | |||||
| Rev.J F Bigge | the date of its first | |||||
| Camp | being fortified & by whom | |||||
| cannot now be ascertained | ||||||
| but the Rev J F Bigge judging from its form on the trace | ||||||
| supposes to be of later [design?], had it been Roman | ||||||
| it would have been nearly square in shape | ||||||
| John Stewart Sapper Royal Engineers |
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