DUNS, burgh of barony, parish and county town, Berwick shire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 1,788. It is situated 44 m. E.S.E. of Edinburgh by road, with a station on the branch line of the L.N.E.R. from Reston to St. Boswells. Trade in grain and flour is carried on, and stock sales are held. On Duns Law (7 00 ft.) the Covenanters, under Alexander Leslie, were encamped in and the Covenanters' Stone on the top of the hill has been en closed. Duns castle, adjoining the town on the W., includes the tower erected by Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332).