John Hunter's Monument

Ericstane Brae

Moffat

Dumfriesshire

NGR - NT 061126

 

The monument is located by the side of the main road alongside the Devil's Beef Tub.

John Hunter

 

John Hunter lived at Tweedsmuir and was pursued by dragoons under Colonel James Douglas. He was shot in the Devil's Beef Tub, a deep natural depression, in 1685. His body was later interred in Tweedsmuir kirkyard (Peebsleshire), where three stones commemorate him.