NT40NE 15 4511 0686. (NT 4511 0686) Chapel (NR) (Site of) (NT 4509 0676) Burial Ground (NR) OS 6" map (1958) No trace remains of the pre-Reformation chapel which stood here. A burial ground lay immediately S, burials having taken place there within living memory. Name Book 1858 All authorities agree that a chapel stood at Old Northhouse. However, Orig Paroch Scot (OPS 1851) following the New Stat Acc (NSA) (1845; J Strachan), states that this was the original church of Cavers. This however, is not accepted by later authorities (e.g. G Watson 1946). The NSA states that sheepfolds occupy the chapel site. Watson notes that burials took place in the graveyard up to 1792, "and though this enclosure was scarcely traceable 40 years later, individual graves could still be distinguished until just over a century ago". There is no surface trace of either the chapel or burial ground in the vicinity of the locations. The chapel site falls on level, rising ground under pasture and the burial ground on undulating marshy ground beside an unnamed burn. Nothing is known of these sites at Old Northhouse cottages though their tradition is locally maintained. Mr T N Cavers (Dod Farm, Dodburn) reports that burials were said to have been exposed in the bank of the burn, near the OS site around 30 years ago, but he had no other information about the site. Dr M Robson (Hawick Museum) had no further information. Visited by OS (JRL) 17 December 1979