Cademuir (Gael. caed-an-mohr, 'place of the great Battle'), a broad-backed upland on the mutual border of Peebles and Manor parishes, Peeblesshire, flanking the eastern bank of Manor Water, and culminating at 1359 feet above sea-level, 2 miles SSW of Peebles town. Its surface is strewn with remains of ancient camps and with nearly 200 monumental stones, the transmuted vestiges of military possession by successively the Caledonians and the Romans, and of a great and sanguinary local conflict.
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