Along the same ridge of rocky outcrops as Hume Castle, see previous entry, sits Smailholm Tower. In the top picture you can see Hume Castle just along to the left of the tower. Smailholm is an almost perfectly preserved peel tower and is the standard issue image of a Border keep.
There's a great sense of the Hume's sitting in Hume watching the Pringle's at Smailholm waiting to nick out and steal each others cattle.
Smailholm also has strong connections to Sir Walter Scott.
Bonny views all over the Borders too.
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