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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SUIE CAIRN Suoy Cairn
Suoy Cairn
Suoy Cairn
Suie Cairn
Suie Cairn
Suie Cairn
Mr George Laing, Courtieston
Mr Peter Laing Millfield
Mr John Mackie Johnstone
Sir A.P. Gordon Bart [Baronet] (Knockespock.)
Revd [Reverend] John Minto (Clatt)
Mr Garrie (Gamekeeper Knockespock)
052 A cairn of stones abot 20 feet in diameter 6 feet
in height neatly formedand tradition says that
at an early period a man was killed and quartered
on the spot for giving information regarding the
roads in the neighbourhood. Although the above legend is comparatively modern the Cairn is evidently an Antiquity and in a good state of preservation.

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Parish of Leslie

Suie Cairn
[signed initials] EHC [Edward Henry Courtney]
Capt RE [Captain Royal Engineers]

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