Scawd Bank

Rising to 547 metres in the Roxburgh hills of the Scottish Borders, this grassy dome marks a quiet outlier in the rolling border country between the Cheviot massif and the upper Teviot valley. The summit qualifies as a Donald Dewey and Tump, rewarding those who seek out the lesser-trodden heights of this pastoral landscape.

• •The name 'Scawd' likely derives from the Scots word for 'scald' or 'scauld', possibly referring to bare, exposed ground where vegetation has been scorched or stripped away by weather or grazing.
• •At 547 metres, Scawd Bank sits just below the 610-metre threshold for Corbett status, placing it firmly among the Borders' modest but characterful middle ground between true mountain and mere upland.
• •The summit lies in Roxburghshire, one of Scotland's historic shires that once formed the heartland of the Border Reivers' raiding country during the turbulent centuries before the Union of the Crowns.