Mucklestane Moor

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Mucklestane Moor
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Mucklestane Moor is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf.

One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising to be attempted by the Jacobites after the Act of Union.

Here is where Mucklestane Moor is first introduced, in chapter 2.

This dreary common was called Mucklestane-Moor, from a huge column of unhewn granite, which raised its massy head on a knell near the centre of the heath, perhaps to tell of the mighty dead who slept beneath, or to preserve the memory of some bloody skirmish.

Elshie, The Black Dwarf, On Mucklestane Moor

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