Langholm rode its marches every year on 27 July. In 1901 a drum and fife band went round the town at half past five in the morning, and a hound trail was run over six miles. Children then paraded with heather besoms behind a thistle, a barley bannock and a salt herring held high. Hazlitt cited the Antiquary.
Riding the marches at Langholm
27 July · Langholm, Dumfriesshire
Still kept
A large thistle, a barley bannock, and a salt herring were carried aloft.
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 2, p. 359. Read the original
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