OS1/1/23/13

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MAINS OF TILLYMORGAN Mains of Tillymorgan
Mains of Tillymorgan
Mains of Tillymorgan
Mr Buchan, Ground Officer.
Mr Alexander Davison. Tenant.
Mr McKnight, Graystone
035 A large farmsteading, on the estate of Tillymorgan. Situated on the south east side of the hill of Tillymorgan.
Site of CAMP [Hill of Tinnyfforgan] (Site of) Brittish Camp
(Site of) Brittish Camp
(Site of) Brittish Camp
Mr Buchan. Ground Officer.
Statistical Account of Aberdeenshire,
Mr McKnight. Graystones.
035 Mr Buchan the ground officer for estate of Tillymorgan, says, that when taking in this part of the Hill he removed the remains of what he supposes to have been a Brittish Camp. he says the Bank & Ditch was quite perfect, and had every appearance of being a Camp. This camp is mentioned in the Statistical Account of Aberdeenshire.

" On the north side of the hill of Culsalmond are the remains of a British encampment, protected on the north west side of the hill by double lines of entrenchment still very distinct. These lines are in the immediate neighbourhood of a farm town named Cadden, which name signifies warlike entrenchments or a place where soldiers had been stationed to watch the motions of An invading enemy. There are also still distinct traces of military works on the west bank of the Glen water opposite to Cadden. Lines of entrenchment are also still visible on the east side of the hill and Camp to protect it on that quarter. ( Statistical Account)
Note. Every effort was made to trace out and have inserted on the Plans the lines of entrenchment mentioned in this extract as having existed on the north side of the hill of Culsalmond and on the west bank of the Glen Water opposite to Cadden, but without success.

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Aberdeenshire,
Parish of Culsamond

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