Mucklestane Moor

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Mucklestane Moor (S8x32) 2C (4C set) 32 Bar Strathspey For 2 Couples In A 4 Couple Set, Devised By Hugh Foss.

1- 8 1st man and 2nd lady turn Right Hands
1st man casts down and crosses over as 2nd lady casts up and crosses over
Meanwhile 1st lady and 2nd man turn Right Hands and face out
9-16 1st man and 2nd lady turn Left Hands
Meanwhile 1st lady casts down and crosses as 2nd man casts up and crosses
1st man and 2nd lady set then turn Left Hands to face 1st corner positions
Meanwhile 1st lady and 2nd man cross Right Hands and cast to face Partner on 1st diagonal
17-24 2nd and 1st couples dance a diagonal Reel of four passing right shoulders
end on own sides in order. 2 1
25-32 2nd lady and 1st man cross over and turn ¾ Left Hands
Meanwhile 2nd man and 1st lady turn ¾ Right Hands and cast up or down
Repeat the figure. 21

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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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