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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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ROUNDIE LAW An urn containing Human remains found here AD 1805 | Roundie Law An Urn containing Human Remains found here A.D. 1805 | Alexander Smith Belmellie Crofts Joseph Stephens Croft of Colp Revd. [Reverend] J Duncan Aberdeen |
011 | An Urn containing Human Remains found here, A.D.1805, by one John Duncan while carting bravel out of a small natural hillock,well know by the name of "Roundie Law". This hillock, local tradition says, is supposed to have been formerly a seat of the baronial court, hence the name. |
Site of TUMULUS [Upper Smiddyseat] | Tumulus (site of) | Alexander Smith Belmellie Crofts Joseph Stephens Croft of Colp Revd. [Reverend] J Duncan Aberdeen |
011 | About twenty chains North East of the farm of Upper Smiddyseat, were to be seen a large sepulchral mound, 6 or 8 yards in Diameter, and upwards of 4 feet high, and in the centre of it there was a considerabel quantity of Wood ashes - about 35 years ago this Tumulus was difaced and levelled down by Alexander Smith Balmellie Crofts [over] |
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[page] 103County of Aberdeen. Parish of Turriff.
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