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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of KNOWE OF QUIAN KRUSSTI | Knowe of Quian Krussti site of Knowe of Quian Krussti site of Knowe of Quian Krussti site of Knowe of Quian Krussti site of |
Mr David Smith, Newark; Mr. Donald Stephen, Norton; Mr. Magnus Johnston, Queena New Stat [Statistical] Acc. [Account] of Scotland |
094 | This object, the site of which is situated about 20 yards E.N E. of the farm offices at Brymeadow, is referred to in New Statistical account of Scotland as follows:---"During last summer,"(1839) "a man who built a habitation for himself on the Common between this "(Aith)" and Isbister, in Birsay, found what seems to have been a Pict's House in a knowe from which he took the stones, It consisted of a chain of four Circular Cells, Connected together by passages too narrow & low ever to have formed an abode for men, It seems more probable that the rubbish above the cells was the ruins of their residence, and that these were used as cellars or places of security." It was all removed and the site cultivated about the period above referred to, |
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