Prehistory
In 1991 a hill walker walking near the source of the Gameshope burn in the far east of Tweedsmuir parish found a broken longbow in a peat bog known as Rotten Bottom. The walker kept it in his garage for quite a while before taking it to an expert. The subsequuent carbon dating indicated that the bow, made of yew, dated to 4000BC. The bow or at least part of it is now in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh