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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SCHOOL [Clashmarket] School. (Assembly).
School. (Assembly)
School. (Assembly)
Mr Thomas Henderson. Schoolmaster
Mr William Thomson. Mill of Migvie
Mr Robert Dingwall Blackmill
070 A neat modern building, consisting of Schoolroom, dwelling house outhouses with a garden &c attached, Sanctioned, and principally supported, by the Established Church. General. Assembly; Educational funds, and the Scholars fees. it is a mixed school. average attendants about 40. daily. There has been a School here for upwards of a hundred years.
STONE CIST FOUND HERE A.D. 1847 [Clashmarket] Stone Cist found here AD 1847
Stone Cist found here AD 1847
Stone Cist found here AD 1847
Mr Thomas Henderson.
Mr William Thomson.
Mr Robert Dingwall
070 About 20 years ago. a Cist or stone Coffin was discovered here. and consisted of rough stones or flags. set on end. and covering the top, & was about. 2 feet long by 2 feet broad and 20 inches deep. and about 2 feet from the surface. Containing some human bones and ashes.
ERD HOUSE Erd House
Erd House
Erd House
Mr Thomas Henderson
Mr William Thomson
Mr Robert Dingwall
070 This is a fine specimen of an Erd house, or as the are commonly called Picts houses. It was discovered in 1862. and what had fallen into decay has been restored, a door put on the entrance. paling put round it and planted with trees on top, so that at present it has a fine and complete apperance. There was nothing found in it when opened out only ashes.
STONE CELT AND QUHORLES FOUND HERE A.D. 1852 [Clashmarket] Stone Celt & Quhorles found here (A.D. 1852) Mr Thomas Henderson
Mr William Thomson
Mr Robert Dingwall
070 In 1852. a Stone Celt and a few Quhorles were found here. The entrance is from east. or SE. [South East] and inside two chambers. it is lined inside with rough boulder stones, and covered on the top with large flag stones

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