OS1/4/27/36
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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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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[page] 36Co. [County] of Banff -- Parish of Rothiemay
[note] ? see page 84
[signed] James Gray
Sapr R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]
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