Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of the Devil's Beef Tub on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Borders of Dumfries and Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. It is a deep, dramatic hollow in the hills north of the Scottish town of Moffat. The unusual name derives from its use to hide stolen cattle by the Border Reivers of the Johnstone clan who were referred to by their enemies as " devils "; it is also called Marquis of Annandale's Beef-Tub, or Beef-Stand, after the Lord of Annandale, chief of the raiding " loons " meaning " lads "; the name may also refer to the resemblance the valley bears to a tub used for preserving meat. On 12 August 1685 fleeing covenanter John Hunter attempted to escape pursuing dragoons by running up the steep side of the Beef Tub. He failed, was shot dead on the spot, and is buried in Tweedsmuir churchyard. A monument to Hunter stands on the southwest rim of the Beef Tub. In his novel Redgauntlet, novelist Walter Scott said, " It looks as if four hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is ". Scott also describes the flight of a highlander fleeing the aftermath of the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1745; the soldier rolls down the hill amid a hail of enemy gunfire, and escapes. The Beef Tub is also known as MacCleran's Loup after the tumbling highlander. The Clan Johnstone were once one of the most powerful of the Border Reiver Scottish clans. They originally settled in Annandale and for over six hundred years they held extensive possessions in the west of the Scottish Marches, where they kept watch against the English. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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