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The largely rural borderland between England and Scotland was ravaged by marching armies in more than three centuries of conflict between the great nations. During this period from the Wars of Scottish Independence to the Union of the Crowns, many myths and folk heroes were born, with later romantic writers glossing over the...

Like Gomorrah with horses – that’s probably the best way to describe the stories of those inhabiting the heather-clad hills between England and Scotland who were strung up on gallows during the turbulent period of the border reivers and after, when King James I/VI attempted to ‘Pacify the Border’.

The condemned here were cattle rustlers,...