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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PERKHILL Perkhill
Perkhill
Perkhill
Perkhill
Perkhill
Robert Smith Esqr. Glenmillan
Mr. James Strachan Milton of Auchinhove
Mr. John Milne Ph. [Parish] Registra Blelack
Valuation Roll 1859 & 60
Revd. [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law]
071 This name applies to about twenty Small Croft houses each one storey high thatched and in tolerable repair Some four or five have got names the rest are nameless in their Rent receipts there is nothing for each house but Perkhill Croft. the few that has names are named by the Occupiers themselves but not known in the locality the property of Francis Farquharson Finzean
GLENGARRY Glengarry
Glengarry
Glengarry
Glengarry
Robert Smith Esqr.
Mr. John Milne
Mr. James Strachan Land Steward
Revd. [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law]
071 A Small old crofthouse one Storey high thatched and in very bad repair on Perkhill the property of Francis Farquharson Finzean
SWORDS, BATTLEAXES AND BRONZE BROOCHES FOUND HERE A.D. 1805 [Glengarry] 071 Adjacent to this house [Glengarry] is a place where there was found Sword blades Battleaxes and bronze broaches when trenching the ground in 1805 they were taken away by the proprietor at the time.
CAIRNS [Glengarry] Cairns
Cairns
Cairns
Andrew Ross Esq. Factor, Tarland
New Statistical Account
Old Statistical Account
071 Also east of the house [Glengarry] towards the Mains of Glengarry are a great quantity of Tumulie each is about the same in size and consists of about four cartloads of Small round Stones, "It is very likely however that the Cairns which are Scattered over the Perk Hill a little to the north near which Sword-blades Stone battleaxes and other memorials of warfare have been found mark the Spot where the diminished forces of the unfortunate Monarch Macbeth have been vanquished" Statistical Account

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