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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of CAIRNS [Hill of Cairns] Tumuli
Tumuli
Tumuli
William Bremner Tillydown
John Cruickshank Knauchland
John Taylor Retanach
015.15 A number of small cairns of rough stones piled into a conical shape and this locality is commonly called Cath. or Battle Cairns but amongst Antiquarians they are called Primaeval Tumuli a number of which has been cleared away, but as no care was taken in the clearing of them, it is not know whether they contained anything of interest or not, none of them has been opened for Antiquarian Research.

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Co. [County] of Banff -- Parish of Rothiemay

[note] ? see page 84

[signed] James Gray
Sapr R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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