Ninestane Rig
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Ninestane Rig is a small stone circle in Scotland near the border with England. Located in Roxburghshire, near to Hermitage Castle, it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Ne
Ninestane Rig stones in 2007
William II de Soules
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William II de Soules, Lord of Liddesdale and Butler of Scotland, was a Scottish Border noble during the Wars of Scottish Independence. William was the elder son of Nicholas II de Soules, Lord of Lidde
Ninestane Rig
…Abbas in Dorset or the Nine Stones at Altarnun in Cornwall, nor Nine Stone Rig in East Lothian or Nine Standards Rigg in Cumbria.) According to legend, William II de Soules, who was lord of Hermitage Castle, was arrested and boiled alive by his tenants at the site in 1320 in a cauldron suspended from the two large stones…
Hermitage Castle (in 1814), caput of the small provincial lordship of Liddesdale.