The team hopes to learn more about a raid by a 15,000-strong English army in southern Scotland in 1545.
Archaeologists are hoping to leave a different type of mark on a remote Borders valley destroyed by an English army almost 500 years ago.
From historical records, at least a dozen towers and castles along the winding Rule Valley were destroyed during a 10-hour raid on 16 September 1545. Project officer Kieran Manchip said: "Although it may not have been completely destroyed during the attack, we established last November that the castle had been abandoned for good later in the 16th Century.
Following an embarrassing defeat for Henry VIII at Ancrum Moor, north of Jedburgh, in February 1545, where Borders soldiers switched sides to join the Scots, a few months later a much larger army, under the command of Lord Hertford, marched north to seek revenge across Teviotdale and Tweeddale.
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