The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Ancient custom celebrated
Riders gallop up the chase on the Nipknowes during the Common Riding yesterday in Hawick.
Hawick Common Riding is the first of the annual Border events.
It celebrates the capture of an English flag from a raiding party in 1514 by the youth of Hawick at Hornshole and the ancient custom of riding the marches or boundaries of the common land.