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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAIRNS [Cairnmore] Cairns Mr. Gray. Waterside
Mr. Gordon. Market Inn
Mr. Mavor. Carnmore
025 Three large mounds of earth and stones. situate in the district of Cairnmore. on the estate of Lord Fife. they are not distinguished by any name
CAIRN (Site of) [Cairnmore] Cairn (Site of) Mr. Gray. Waterside
Mr. Gordon. Market Inn
Mr. Mavor. Carnmore
025 The site of a large Cairn of Stones and earth - similar to all accounts by Authorities, to the three undisturbed. This Cairn was removed for building purposes in the year 1860 when there was discovered a Stone Coffin containing human remains The proprietor Lord Fife directed that the remaining three to be undisturbed.
STONE COFFIN CONTAINING HUMAN REMAINS FOUND HERE A.D. 1860 [cairn, Cairnmore] Mr. Gray. Waterside
Mr. Gordon. Market Inn
Mr. Mavor. Carnmore
025 The site of a large Cairn of Stones and earth - similar to all accounts by authorities, to the three undisturbed. This Cairn was removed for building purposes in the year 1860 when there was discovered a Stone Coffin containing human remains The proprietor Lord Fife directed that the remaining three to be undisturbed.

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County of Aberdeen -- Parish of Glass

[Note relating to 'Stone Coffin containing Human Remains found here A.D. 1860'] - was anything found in the
stone coffin? [Initialled] N.P.

[Signed] A.J. Dransfield
S.R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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