Building on the results of work at the same site in October 2024, join AOC Archaeology Group in returning to Adie’s Brae to uncover more of the story! Previous work confirmed that the site is indeed a scooped settlement dating to the Iron Age, with the remains of at least two roundhouses within an enclosing […]

FULLY BOOKED Join the Uncovering the Tweed team for an introduction to geophysical survey at Drumelzier Haugh. The session will involve an introduction to geophysics and training on how to use the resistivity equipment to survey the area around a medieval hoard findspot, to help add to what is currently known about the context of […]

I walk the Tweed regularly with my border collies between the Tweed Bridge at Manor and the Barns estate. Have done so for the last 30+ years. So many happy times spent there walking in all seasons watching the spring birds arrive, seeing kingfishers and otters and other wildlife. I especially love the arrival of […]

Travelling through Tweedsmuir, you’ll find an old inn at a bend in the road where hills, travellers, and stories have met for centuries. It’s called The Crook Inn, and one of its most memorable characters was a woman known as Jeanie O’ the Crook. Jeanie Hutchison was born at the inn in 1807, daughter of […]

Strawberry Hill rises quietly above Tweedsmuir, its 495-metre summit offering wide, rewarding views after a strenuous climb. From the top, the waters of Fruid Reservoir stretch out below, with nearby Garelet Dod standing watch across the valley. It is a place where landscape and history meet, and where the name of the hill carries a […]

Rising quietly to just 538 metres, the hill was hardly impressive at first glance. Sheep grazed its slopes, and mist often clung to its rounded summit, disguising it as little more than another fold in the Scottish Borders. Yet locals had always called it The Crown of Scotland, a name far grander than the hill […]