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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STONE CIRCLE (Remains of) [Schivas] Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Mr. Alexander Cheyne Newseat
Mr. Alexander Mitchell Mill of Schivas
Mr. George Allan Mill of Schivas
037 Is supposed to have been abt. [about] 1½ chains in diameter and Consisting of a great number of big Standing Stones. It is said that 19 were standing about 30 years ago but all except one have been Cut down and removed for building houses the only one remaining thus (small sketch - upright stone) is abt. [about] 5 feet above the surface and standing near a gate and angle of a stone wall at the north edge of the Woods of Schivas upon the property of the Earl of Aberdeen.
MILL STONE Millstone
Millstone
Millstone
Mr. Alexander Cheyne Newseat
Mr. Alexander Mitchell Mill of Schivas
Mr. George Allan Mill of Schivas
038 a large boulder with a circle inscribed upon the Surface of abt. [about] 3 inches deep apparently for the purposes of procuring a Mill stone out of the block. Tradition does not, it seems, refer to the time the Circle was inscribed The Stone however is well known by the name.
SCHOOL [Wood of Schivas] School
School
School
Mr. Alexander Cheyne Newseat
Mr. Alexander Mitchell Mill of Schivas
Mr. George Allan Mill of Schivas
038 An Infant school situated near the Edge of the Woods of Schivas and abt. [about] 3 ch [chains] in the Wood also abt. [about] 15 chs. [chains] W. [West] of the Boundary of Tarves & Ellon Phs. (Parishes]

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