Category: Teviotdale

  • Waterloo Monument, Peniel Heugh

    Waterloo Monument, Peniel Heugh

    Into the Scottish Borders, and to Peniel Heugh—a modest hill of 237 metres, though it carries itself as if it were Everest. It is, I am told, a volcanic plug of olivine microgabbro, which sounds far grander than the dark lump it appears to be above the village of Ancrum. At its summit stands the…