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GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY Great North of Scotland Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway
Mr. Leslie Hunter, Station Master, Aberdeen
Mr. William Stewart, Station Master, Dyce
Valuation Roll 1859 - 60
066 This railway extends from Aberdeen to Inverness; is used for passenger as well as goods traffic, and has electric telegraph along it. It is double from Aberdeen to a little beyond Dyce Junction Station, and is thence single to the north.
Property of the Great North of Scotland Railway Company.
Site of TUMULUS [Upper Kirkton] Site of Tumulus [Urn found here A.D. 1814]
Site of Tumulus [Urn found here A.D. 1814
Site of Tumulus [Urn found here A.D. 1814]
Mr. James Bowman
Mr. G. W. Kemp
Revd. [Reverend]
J. S. Kemp
065 This was a large ancient cairn in which on the removal of the stones in 1814 an eartherware urn was found in an empty state. There is no trace of it at present, its site having been pointed out by Mr. J. Bowman who saw its removal and the urn it contained. It is on the farm of Upper Kirkton.
URN, CONTAINING ASHES, FOUND HERE A.D. 1853 [Upper Kirkton] Urn, containing ashes, found here A. D. 1853
Urn, containing ashes, found A. D. 1853
Urn, containing ashes, found here A. D. 1853
Mr. James Bowman
Revd. [Reverend] J. S. Kemp
Mr. G. W. Kemp
065 Next to the last mentioned object, in a field on the other side of the road, was found an earthenware urn containing some ashes A.D. 1853. There was no cairn at this place. Its site has been pointed out by Mr. J. Bowman, Nether Kirkton, who had the urn in his possession.

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