Bertram de Shotts habitually savaged packmen and peddlers for treasure carried along the Great Road.
Such was the menace of Bertram de Shotts, King James IV of Scotland ordered his death.
Bertram de Shotts was probably in fact seven or eight feet high, yet nonetheless, his presence merited Giant status.
A proud, and now wealthy, De Muirhead then carried the bloodied head to the King and was rewarded with a 'Hawk's Flight' of land.
Huge stones they are, standing sentinel in a desolate moorland bowl, in an unutterable silence, brooding and age-old.