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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CROWMALLIE STONE Crowmallie Stone
Crowmallie Stone
Mr George McKnight
Colonel Knight Erskine
Mr Alexander Brown
045 A common land stone about 4 feet in hight and 5 feet in length: situated about ¼ of a mile west of Knockallochie.
MAIDEN STONE (Sculptured) Maiden Stone (Sculptured)
Maiden Stone (Sculptured)
Maiden Stone (Sculptured)
Maiden Stone (Sculptured)
Statistical Account
Mr George McKnight
Colonel Knight Erskine
Mr Alexander Brown
045 "About half a mile to the north west of the church, is to be seen a large stone, called the Maiden Stone, which is ten feet high above the ground, two feet and ten inches broad, and about ten inches thick. It is supposed about six feet below the surface of the ground. Upon it there are several curious hieroglyphical figures cut.
The occassion of its erection is unknown: but there is a tradition that there existed a fewd betwixt the Laird of Balquhain, and the neighbouring proprietor of Harthill, which was carried to such a hight that they had no intercourse with each other. Notwithstanding of this it is reported that the daughter of the former and the son of the latter became attached to each*
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Chapel of Garrioch

Sh [Should] ? expect Crom-allie without w but maintain. [signed] MD

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