OS1/4/14/94
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BLOODY POTS | Bloody Pots | Continued | 005.12 | "the whole Scottish army in fulfilment of their leader's vow, set to work and built the church on the spot where the Danes first settled, while both parties were waiting additional reinforcements. The Danes having been joined by a party of their countrymen who had landed at Old haven of Cullen, about four miles westward, made a successful attack on the Scots, and drove them back to the castle hill; and, in spite to St John for assisting their enemies, they polluted his Sanctuary by maKing it a stable for their horses. By this time, however, the alarm had Spread far and wide; and the Scots, pouring in from all quarters, not only forced back the Danes to their old position on the brow of the hill, but, getting possession of the whole heights, and enclosing them on all sides except that overhanging the sea, they again commenced their murderous work of rolling down Stones, while the helpless Danes could neither oppose nor escape, and then rushing down upon them, sword in hand, the Scots cut them to pieces to a man. Thee Bleedy pots (Bloody pits) is Still the name of the place, which, being incapable of cultivation from its Steepness and exposure to the north blasts, remains to this day in Status quo. Besides the round, the crescent, and variously angled figures in the ground, the graves of the Danes are yet to be seen, sunk and hollow, among the rank brown heather, green at the bottom, and Surrounded at the borders with harebells and whortleberries, with fragments of rock and large detached Stones lying around, and covered with moss". New Statistical Account |
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[Page] 94Co. [County] of Banff - Parish of Gamrie
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