Hermitage Castle, 1890
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Photo of Hermitage Castle, 1890

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Lord de Soulis, who held Hermitage, met with a bizarre end. Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn. There he was put upon a fire and melted alive.

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