Bedshiel
| Bedshiel | |
| Berwickshire | |
|---|---|
 Bedshiel Kaims | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 55°45’9"N, 2°30’15"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Gordon |
| Postcode: | TD3 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Scottish Borders |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
Bedshiel is a hamlet on the B6456 in Berwickshire, six miles from Duns, two miles from Greenlaw, Longformacus and Westruther.
The Watch Water Reservoir, Millknowe Burn and Bogpark Burn are close by.
The Bedshiel Kaims
Near the village a geological feature known as the 'Bedshield Kaims'.[1] A 'kaim' was originally a term for a crooked and winding or steep-sided mound, and here it stands for an elongated, sinuous ridge known to geologists as an esker.[2] It marks where once streams coursed their way down from the melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. The Bedshile Kaims are reckoned to have been formed by glacial meltwater 12,000 years ago, as new rivers cut large valleys and in doing so deposited deep layers of sand and gravel: the kaims are such gravel ridges. The ridge here known as the Kaims is two and a half miles long, stretching from Dogden Moss to Polwarth Moss, rising from the moorland up to about 50 feet places.
The the Millknowe Burn cuts through the Kaims: the burn then widens to gouge its own valley through Dogden Moss and Greenlaw Moor before (as the Fangrist Burn) joining the Blackadder Water.[3]
The Kaims are to be found to the north of Greenlaw.
Outside links
- RCAHMS entry for Bedshiel
- SCRAN File: Bedshiel Kaims, Berwickshire
- Scottish Landform example 37: 'The Kaims' of Bedshiel
