Lough-wood, in Annandale-, their rivals the Maxwels o f Caerlttvi.
roc, the Murrays o f Cockpool, Glendomvyns o f Glendonwin, Cam.
thers of Holmain, Irvines o f Bonjhaw, Jardins o f Applegarth, and
the Elliots o f Liddefdale, may be enumerated among the great
families.
But befides thefe were a fet of clans and furnames on the wholt
border, and on the debateable ground, who, as my author * fays,
were not landed 5 many of them diftinguilhed by noms deguerre, in
the manner as feveral o f our unfortunate brave are at prefent, fudi
as Tom Trotter of the hill, the Goodman Dickfon of Bucktrig, Ralph
Burn of the Coit, George Hall, called Pat’s Geordie there, the Lairit
jok, W^anton Sym, Will of Powder-lanpat, Arthur fire the Braes, Graj
Will, Will the Lord, Willie of Gratna hill, Richie Graham the Plump,
John Skynbank, Priors John and his bairnes, Heitor of the Harlow,
the griefes and cuts of Harlaw; thefe and many more, merry men all,
o f Robin Hood's fraternity, fuperior to the little diftinitions of mem
and tuum.
J une 3. Vifit the Roman ftation at Barrens, in- the pariih o f Middkty\
feated on a flat, bounded on one fide by the fmall water of Mm,
B u r r e n s c a m e , and on another by a fmall Urn. It was well defended by fout
ditches and five dikes ; but much of both is carried away by the
winter floods in the river that bounded on one fide ; a hypocauft had
been difcovered here, infcribed ftones dug up, and coins found,
feme o f them of the lower empire. Obfersied a place formed of
fquare ftones, which I was told contained, ijt the time of the dif-
' • Taken from a fragment of a quarto book, printed in 1603, containing name!
of clans in every fnenfFdom, &c. &c.
covery,
* overy, a quantity of grain : I was alfo informed, that there had been
la l a r g e 'vault a hundred and twenty feet long, defigned for a granary;
¡-but this has l o n g fince been deftroyed for fake o f the materials. Mr.
iHorfely imagines this to have been the blatum bulgium of Antonine,
Ibeing on the North fide o f the wall, with a military road between jt
land Netherby -, and that it was the place where Agricola concluded
•his fecond year’s expedition. As that General was diftinguilhed for
Ihis judicious choice o f fpots of encampment, £0 long after, his fuo-
leeflbrs made ufe o f this,- as appears by a medal o f Conftantius Cblorus
being found here,.for that Emperor lived about two hundred and
¡(twenty years after Agricola. -
T The country now begins to grow very hilly -, but ufefully fo ;
ithe hills being verdant, and formed for excellent iheep-walks : on
i f he fides of one called Burnfwork, about two miles from Barrens,.
are two beautiful camps, -united to each other by a rampart, that
•winds along the fide o f the hill one camp being on the S. Eaft,
fthe other on the N. Weft: one has the pratorium yet vifible ; and
on the North fide are three round tumuli, each joined to it by a-
\dike, projeifcing to forne diftance from the. ramparts ; if protect
the gate on that quarter, -for each of thefe mounts - had its little
Tort: the other camp had two of thefe mounts - on one fide and one
on each end ; but the veftig.es of thefe are very faint : both o f
¡¡¡thefe camps were furrounded with a deep ditch,., and a ftrong
■rampart both on-the -infide and the outfide of the -fofs -, and on
.the very fummit of- the hill is a fmall irregular intrenchment,
1 intended as exploratory, for the view from thence is uninterrupted
•on every part. Thefe camps are very accurately planned by Mr.
|'Gordon, tab. I. p. 16. Thefe alfo were the work of Agricola, and :
highly
Burnswork
CAMPS*