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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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