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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MONK'S CAIRN Monk's Cairn
Monk's Cairn
Monk's Cairn
Joseph Donald Farmtown
George Gordon Cairnhill
James Gordon Cairnhill
015.13 A cairn of stones marking out the place of the combat betweixt the Abbot of Grange and Thomas Gordon or "Tam o' Rerin" for real or alleged inroads upon the Ecclesiastical territories made by Gordon, it is said to have been attended with decided results, by putting an end to contention respecting their possessions, It stands exactly on the march or boundary between the lands now belonging to the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Fife dividing also the Cos [Counties] of Banff and Aberdeen and the parishes of Grange & Cairnie.

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Co [County] of Banff -- Parish of Grange

[signed] James Gray
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