GHOSTLY BLACK HORSES OF EARLSTON BERWICKSHIRE.

GHOSTLY BLACK HORSES OF EARLSTON BERWICKSHIRE.

GHOSTLY BLACK HORSES OF EARLSTON BERWICKSHIRE and a knight in black armour.

Sorrowlessfield Farm
Earlston Berwickshire TD4 6AG
Phone: 01896 849809
Email:enquiries@sorrowlessfield.com
This is a no-smoking house.

Earlston, Berwickshire
On a small spur of the Eildon Hills there is a strange mark on the hillside resembling a galloping horse and rider. About 200 years ago, a horse trader named Dick Canonbie met up with an old man in out-of-date clothes near this spot who bought his black horse. Several times thereafter, Dick returned to sell him some more black horses, receiving old but precious gold coins. One time he insisted on seeing where the old man lived, and was taken to a huge cave in the hills, which contained many black stalls of coal-black horses, with a knight in black armour seemingly asleep at each stall. He was given the choice of blowing a horn, or drawing a sword, and on this choice depended whether he died or became King of this strange place. He made the wrong choice, and was found next morning on the hills, able to gasp out his story before he died. No trace of the cave has ever been found but a strange mark appeared on the hillside where Dick died - a galloping horse and rider. Some claim to have seen the shape of an old man, and others maintain to have seen black-armoured knights on black horses.

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