8 Ettrick Beattock to St Mary's Loch Kist maker: Sam Wade Design taken from: Carving of cattle reiver in the National Museums of Scotland Date: approx. 400 years ago The wars between Scotland and England in the Medieval period largely destroyed both law and order and the economy of the Borders. By 16th century many individual families had taken to raising cattle and had succeeded in growing in wealth and strength. They built tower houses or peels to protect themselves and their possessions from other families who had taken to cattle-raiding and stealing as a quick means of making-good. The carved panel represents such a cattle reiver, mounted on a horse and wearing his steel bonnet. It was probably once a panel from a wooden bed but was reused as part of a later wooden kist. Perhaps it once was to be seen in a Border peel house.

Sam Wade Sculptor Kirk Lodge Yarrow SELKIRK TD7 5LA 01750 82272

Working mainly in copper and brass, Sam Wade creates marvellous kinetic sculptures and ingenious small fountains designed to go inside houses. His electrically powered mobiles are three-dimensional abstract art: Constructivism in the round. His interpretation of the concept of a kist is novel and will demand all your powers of detection to discover.