OS1/4/27/35
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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HILL OF CAIRNS | Hill of Cairns Hill of Cairns Hill of Cairns |
William Bremner Tillydown John Cruickshank Knauchland John Taylor Retanach |
015.15 | A bold eminence on the lands of Mayen, whereon there are the remains of three large Druidical Cairns composed of a mixture of earth and stones standing about six feet above the earths surface, at one time they were of considerable height the upper parts were of a conical shape piled up with rough stone the greater number of which has been removed for drainage and other improvements on the lands of Mayen and Tillydown. there are also a number of small cairns Known as Primeval Tumili the fact of such objects leaves no doubt but the Cairns are of the character represented on trace. |
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[page] 35Co. [County] of Banff -- Parish of Rothiemay
Hill of Cairns Hill [note] part of descriptive text circled -- what is the meaning intended? See page 84
Cairns [note] Site of Cairns?
[signed] James Gray
S.R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]
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