Carcant is a small settlement and a

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, near

Heriot Heriot, from Old English ''heregeat'' ("war-gear"), was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields ...

in the

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area of

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. A famous inhabitant of Carcant was

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Etymology

''Carcant'' is etymologically a

Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...

place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh ''caer'' 'fortification'. The second might be ''can'' 'white', in which case the name means 'white fort'; but more likely it is ''cant'' 'edge of a circle', in this context probably meaning 'district, region, edge, border', thus giving 'fort of the region/border'.Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

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Renewables Map: Carcant, Heriot, Scottish BordersScottish Natural Heritage: Windfarms in Scotland (March 2010RCAHMS record of CarcantRCAHMS record of Carcant WindfarmBritish Listed Buildings: Carcant Bridge over Carcant Burn
Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub

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