OS1/14/45/57
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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FORT (Remains of) [Denoon Law] | Fort (Remains of) | George McLeod Wester Denoon Sta. acct. [Statistical account] Mr Anderson, Glamis |
043 | These Remains are situated upon the top of an isolated basaltic hill called Denoon Law in Denoon glen. "It presents a precipitous face of rocks to the S. [South] & S.W. [South West] on the other side though steep it is covered with a most vivid green sward, forming a contrast with the heath clad Sidlaws about it. Its top is surrounded with a high wall of earth & stones, supposed to have been about 27 feet high & 20 broad; it contains within it upwards of an acre & has evidently been a place of great strength. There are openings upon the E. [East] N.W. [North West] & S.W. [South West] sides. |
Site of PICT'S MILL [nr Denoon Law] | Pict's Mill (Site of) | George McLeod New Statistical Account |
043 | George McLeod, Wester Denoon remembers this site to have contained a corn mill & a dwelling attached which tradition asserted to have been as old as the days of the Picts from whom it derived the name. Nothing remains to be seen of it now. |
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[Page] 57Sheet 43 No. 7 Trace 3 -- Parish of Glamis
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