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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HILL OF CULSH Hill of Culsh
Hill of Culsh
Hill of Culsh
Hill of Culsh
John Fowlie Mid Culsh
Mr. Dalziel New Deer
Pratt's History of Buchan
Mr Wilson Mill of Auchreddie
020 A prominent eminence about ½ a mile north of the village of New Deer.

"On the Hill of Culsh, at some little distance from the Free Church there was formerly a Druidical Circle. The neighbouring farm being still known as. "The Standing Stones of Culsh" Pratts Buchan.

One of the authorities quoted (Mr Wilson) remembers when a boy to have seen one of the stones which formed part of the circle standing near where the Trig. [Trigonometrical] station now is.

"The place where one of them (The Druidical Temples) is about ½ mile north of the Church and still retains the name of the Standing Stones"
Old Statistical Account
Site of STONE CIRCLE [Hill of Culsh] 020 "On the Hill of Culsh, at some little distance from the Free Church there was formerly a Druidical Circle. The neighbouring farm being still known as. "The Standing Stones of Culsh" Pratts Buchan.

One of the authorities quoted (Mr Wilson) remembers when a boy to have seen one of the stones which formed part of the circle standing near where the Trig. [Trigonometrical] station now is.

"The place where one of them (The Druidical Temples) is about ½ mile north of the Church and still retains the name of the Standing Stones"
Old Statistical Account
COMMONTY Commonty
Commonty
Commonty
Mr Black Tenant
John Fowlie Mid Culsh
Mr Barclay Factor
020 A superior farm house and offices about 1½ miles north west of New Deer. The property of W. D. Fordyce Esq.
EAST BRUCEHILL East Brucehill
East Brucehill
East Brucehill
George Milne Tenant
John Fowlie Mid Culsh
Mr Barclay Factor
020 A farm house and offices about ½ a mile south west of Commonty. The property of W.D. Fordyce Esq.

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