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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ACHINGILLS Achingills (District) Mr Clyne, Sordale.
Mr Ross, Springfield.
Mr Mill, Auchingills
011 ; 012 A Small cultivated district, the Property of Sir Tollemache Sinclair, Bart. [Baronet] Thurso East.
SPRINGFIELD Springfield Mr Clyne, Sordale.
Mr Ross, Springfield.
Mr Mill, Auchingills
011 Applies to a Small croft and dwelling house attached the property of Sir Tollemache Sinclair, Bart. [Baronet] Thurso East.
PICT'S HOUSE (Remains of) [Springfield] Pictish Houses (Remains of) 3. Mr Clyne, Sordale.
Mr Ross, Springfield.
Mr Mill, Auchingills
011 Three small mounds or remains of Pictish Houses Situated a few Chains north of the place called Springfield; they have never been opened and in consequence little can be Said about them. About the year 1820 human remains were extracted from the most northerly of these three Mounds said to have been the remains of an old Pensioner who committed suicide in this neighbourhood and was buried in this place

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County of Caithness -- Parish of Thurso

[signed] Robert Kane
Sapr. R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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