In pictures: Huge crowds for Selkirk Common Riding

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Image caption, Selkirk Common Riding is one of the oldest Border festivals, with organisers claiming it can be traced back to 1113.

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Huge crowds gathered in Selkirk at the weekend for its annual common riding celebrations.

Royal Burgh standard bearer Thomas Bell led the celebrations which see people on horseback ride the town's boundaries or "marches".

Selkirk Common Riding commemorates the events of 1513 when 80 men from the town left to fight for King James IV and just one returned.

The standard bearer represents Fletcher, the only Selkirk man, or "Souter", to return alive from the Battle of Flodden.

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Image caption, Selkirk Common Riding claims to be one of the largest cavalcade of horses and riders in Europe

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Image caption, The event commemorates how one man returned to Selkirk after the Battle of Flodden

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Image caption, Legend has it that he had a captured English flag which he swept low, like a scythe, to indicate that all the other man of Selkirk had been cut down.

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Image caption, The Casting of the Colours ceremony is the highlight of the day

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