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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACBETH'S CAIRN | Macbeth's Cairn Macbeth's Cairn Macbeth's Cairn Macbeth's Cairn Macbeth's Cairn |
Robert Smith Esqr. Glenmillan Mr. James Strachan Milton of Auchenhove Mr. John Milne Ph. [Parish] Registra Blelack New Statistical Account Revd [Reverend] Charles McCombie L.L.D. [Doctor of Law] |
071 | This is the remains of what was about forty years ago a large heap of Stones. it is now about 50 feet in diameter and about two feet high quite level and flat, between the periods of 1835 and 1855 the neighbouring people used to resort to it for building material the most of the houses on Parkhill were built from its contents. the present proprietor enclosed it about 10 years ago with a Circular dyke and planted the space between cairn and dyke for the purpose of preserving and preventing any more of its Stones being taken away, about the same time he caused the Cairn to be opened and there was found at the bottom a Stone Coffin containing bones and ashes. |
| STONE COFFIN CONTAINING BONES AND ASHES FOUND HERE A.D. 1855 [Macbeth's Cairn] | 071 | [from above description] .... about the same time he caused the Cairn to be opened and there was found at the bottom a Stone Coffin containing bones and ashes. |
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[Page] 25County of Aberdeen Parish of Lumphanan
[A very faint note overwritten Stone Coffin] The line about the [ ] that these things were found is in description. Please put it here
"Macbeth was Killed and buried at Lumphanan. It is necessary to record the evidence of
this fact, furnished by history and tradition as Shakespear has represented Dunsinane
in Perthshire as the scene of his Slaughter. A tradition prevails over a wide district of country
and has been unhesitatingly received for ages that the Murderer or Victor of "the gracious Duncan"
was Slain in Lumphanan, and that the heap of Stones which remains to this day, called
Macbeth's Cairn is the place of his Sepulture" "On Perkhill about a mile
from the Church is Macbeth's Cairn when Mr. Shand the late incumbent of the
parish wrote his Statistical Account "Rose pretty high above the field which
Surrounds it"
Extracts from the new Statistical Account of the Ph. [Parish] of Lumphanan
"Four years afterwards he was again defeated by Malcolm MacDuncan,
and fleeing northwards across the Mountain range Since called the Grampians
he was Slain at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire on 5th December 1056
Extract from Chambers Encyclopa. [Encyclopedia] Vol VI [Volume 6] Page 237
Macbeth was buried at Iona
JMcD.
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