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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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Site of TUMULUS [Easter Culbeuchly] | Tumulus (site of) | New Stats. [Statistica]l Account Mr Sewart Culbeuchly |
010.03 | On the north side of the farm steading of Easter Culbeuchly a tumulus stood, in which were found some forty years ago several vases of baked earth, placed on a sort of a stone bench, supported on blocks of stone - some of these were in an inverted position, others had a flat stone on the top, and the whole enclosed in the tumulus - There is no trace of this tumulus, now remaining, as the land has been levelled and improved. |
URNS FOUND HERE [Easter Culbeuchly] | 010.03 | On the north side of the farm steading of Easter Culbeuchly a tumulus stood, in which were found some forty years ago several vases of baked earth, placed on a sort of a stone bench, supported on blocks of stone - some of these were in an inverted position, others had a flat stone on the top, and the whole enclosed in the tumulus - There is no trace of this tumulus, now remaining, as the land has been levelled and improved. | ||
GALLOWS HILL | Gallows Hill | John Gray. Little Wardend Mr Stewart Culbeuchly. |
010.03 | A small conspicuous hillock in a cultivated field on the South side of Easter Culbeuchly farm Steading, Said to be the place on which criminals were executed, in olden times - when the district was under the jurisdiction of the Lord of Inchdrewer. |
A STONE COFFIN FOUND HERE [Gallows Hill] | 010.03 | In an adjoining field, a stone coffin or case was found lately |
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