Volume 1
The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1791-1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The statistical account of Scotland. : Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes / By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![' r .cf Lauder* Prior to that period, fiot above four or five fmall beeves were killed in Lauder market at Martinmas. Since that time, in confequence of the pultivation of turnip and grafs, there has been plenty of the bell: beef and mutton through the vfhole year. Peat and turf were formerly ufed here for fuel; but, fince the turnpike roads were made, coal, though tranfported from, the diftance of 15 niiles, is' ufed for that purpofe both in town and country. The farmers find it moil for their advantage to bring home lime in the fummer feafon, and Coal when re-, turning from Edinburgh or Dalkieth markets. Thefe two, with Kelfo and Haddington, are the markets neartft this pa- rifli. Arit'iqtiliies.—A confiderable quantity of Spanifli, Scotch, r.nd Englilh coins, have been dug up. The antiquity of the firrt extends no farther than the age of Elifabeth. The Scotch and Englilh belong to the age of Edward Longfhanks, and Alexander I. of Scotland; and fome of them are of a later date. The minifter of Lauder is in pofiefiion of fome of thefe coins, and alfo of feveral Roman coins, whofe infcrip- tions are, Lucius Flamiriiiis, Julius Cacfar^ fe'j. There are many Pictlfli and Scotch encampments in this parlih and the neighbourhood. All cf them are of a round or oval figure, and are called rings by the common people. The Roman encampments were fquare or rectangular ; but none of thein are to be feen in this part of the country. The largelt Scotch ■or ricliih encauipment in the parilh is on Tollis-hi]l, or TuUius-hill. It is on the ro.id between Lauder and Had- dington, and is fuppofed to have got its name from a Romm army palling through this country, and commanded by a Tul- lius. Mary tumuii are to be feen in Lauder moor, on t!^t=: old](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365799_001_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
