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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
RAPPLA BURN Raploch Burn
Raploch Burn
Raploch Burn
Mr Adam Nichol Burreldales
Mr Theodore Henderson Cammaloun
Mr William Wight North Carmmaloun
028 Applied to a small burn which rises in the parish of Auchterless and after a south easterly course of about a mile falls into the Lownie burn near Cockhill Wood.
RAPPLA WOOD Raploch Wood
Raploch Wood
Raploch Wood
Mr Adam Nichol Burreldales
Mr William Wight Cammaloun
Mr John Strachan Cardenwell
028 A small fir plantation well known by this name situated about a mile and a half north west of Fyvie Castle
STONE CIRCLE (Remains of) [Burreldales] Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Mr Adam Nichol Burreldales
Mr John Strachan Cardenwell
Mr William Wight Cammaloun
028 On the farm of Burreldales there are the remains of a Druidical Circle consisting of an upright stone about 5 feet in height and 2 ft [feet) and a half in width the farmer says about seven years ago there were two complete Circles consisting of a large quantity of huge boular stones some of which would weigh from twenty to thirty hundredweight the outer circle measured about thirty yards in diameter the outer stones did not form a perfect circle nor did they stand upright
STONE CISTS AND BRONZE DAGGER FOUND HERE [Burreldales] Stone Cists & Bronze Dagger found here Mr Adam Nichol Burreldales
Mr John Strachan Cardenwell
Mr William Wight Carmmaloun
028 near the south west of the outer circle and about a foot below the surface was discovered a rude stone coffin containing a large urn nothing authentic wither as to the style of its manufacture or the precise nature of or state of its contents is preserved owing to it falling to peices as soon as exposed to the air About a foot below the inner circle was discovered another stone Coffin containing a quantity of human bones about two yards north of the stone coffin was found part of a bronze sword which measured about three inches in length and a inch and a half in width the greater part of the stones were built into dykes

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Aberdeenshire Parish of Fyvie

[Raploch Burn is corrected to Rappla Burn] Rappla [Initialled] J.B. 18th April 1871

[Raploch Wood is corrected to Rappla Wood] Rappla [Initialled] J.B. 18th April 1871

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There is a small sketch of the Stone Circle (Remains of).

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