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Hawkshaw is the ancestral family home of the Porteous Family on the River Tweed just two miles southwest of Tweedsmuir in Peeblesshire , Scotland , dating from at least 1439 . The original village of Hawkshaw was destroyed when the Fruid Reservoir was constructed in 1963 . A fortified tower stood on a hill overlooking the village for hundreds of years, although nothing remains of it now, its site being marked with a Cairn , built from stones from the original tower, which plays host to a gathering of Porteous family members from all over the world every five years. The September 2005 gathering attracted seventy family members from five Continents , and a short religious service was followed by the laying of a Wreath at the cairn, in memory of all fallen Porteous Servicemen and women. The tower was probably one of a series of so-called Peel Tower s, small fortified keeps built along the Scottish Borders , intended as watch towers where signal fires could be lit to warn of approaching danger. A line of these towers was built in the 1430 s across the Tweed valley from Berwick to its source, as a response to the dangers of invasion from the English Borders . Hawkshaw was one of over two dozen of these in Peeblesshire alone. |
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