Duns Law Cairn
Duns Law
Duns
Berwickshire
NGR - N*
The stone where the Covenanters met had to be protected by an iron grille to prtect it from souvenir hunters. A cairn was added to the site at a later date.
The inscription reads:
ON THIS STONE ACCORDING
TO UNBROKEN TRADITION WAS
RAISED THE STANDARD OF THE
COVENANTERS WHEN IN 1639
THEIR ARMY UNDER GENERAL SIR
ALEX LESLIE ASSEMBLED
ON DUNS LAW
Duns Law
The Covenanter army under he command of Genera; Alexander Leslie camped on Duns Law in 1639, following a visit of Charles I's men to publish the king's Newcastle Declaraton. Thus Leslie's men held a strong position, protecting routes north to Edinburgh.
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