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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEITH-HALL HOUSE [1654] | Keith-hall House Keith-hall House Keith-hall House |
Revd. [Reverend] John Keith Keith Hall Mr. David Brown, Teacher Keith Hall Mr William Ironside, Ground Officer Keith Hall |
055 | A large, substantial mansionhouse, the seat of the Right Hon. [Honourable] the Earl of Kintore, erected in 1654. |
| Site of CASKIEBEN | Site of) Caskieben (Site of) Caskieben (Site of) Caskieben (Site of) Caskieben |
Revd. [Reverend] John Keith Mr. David Brown Mr. William Ironside New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] |
055 | No trace of this building now exists. It stood a little to the north-east of the pre-sent house of Keith-hall on a circular piece of ground surrounded by a moat. No information can be gleaned respecting its date of erection. This was the ancient name of the estate of Keith-hall and belonged to the Johnston family previous to coming into the hands of the present proprietor's ancestors. |
| MOAT | 055 | In the centre of the circular plot, access to which is gained by a small wooden bridge thrown across the moat, stands a large sculptured stone. | ||
| SCULPTURED STONE (Found in River Don A.D. 1853) | 054 | It does not properly belong to this spot but was put up here as a supposed relic of a more ancient period. In the "Early History of Kintore" it is thus described. "The writer (the late Alexander Watt Kintore)" superintended the taking out of the bed of the river Don, nearly opposite to Mr. Tait's Mills, of a stone 5 feet 2 in. [inches] long. two feet broad at top and 1 foot 7 in. [inches] at bottom, and 1 foot 3 in. [inches] thick. This stone along with another not long ago set upright in the wood at Port Elphinstone, has the same strange figures rudely carved upon it as those got in the Castle Hill of Kintore. The stone got in the river bed has been placed on the pleasure grounds at Keith-hall. These remarkable sculptured stones evidently all belong to the same period, and it is suggested, are clearly remnants of the worship or monumental records of the aborigines of these islands. |
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[Page] 28Parish of Keith-Hall and Kinkell
Keith-hall House
Altered to Stump
See remark No 7 on plan examination 17 Decr. [December] 1866 [A.M.L.] O.M.O. [Ordnance Map Office]
Caskieben. Should be written as one word
[Faint pencil] [Character] to be shown on Sketch EHC Corrected
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Kate51- Moderator, Nora Edwards, Geoffrey M Gill
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