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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GREEN TULLOCHS Green Tulachs (Pictish Houses remains of) Mr G. McKay Esq. Borrowston Mains
Mr Waters. Bulmore
Mr Niel Henderson, Dunreay
004 About 64 chains west of the chapel - along the shore and close to the edge of the cliff is a pictish cairn - all of which has been removed but the principal wall of the building - that - through time and exposure has now become an Embankment of loose Earth and stones - and is about 8 or 10 feet high -
PICTS' HOUSES (Remains of) [Green Tullochs] 004 a few paces to the south west a small conical mound stands - another Pictish-house almost entire. It has like the rest - no doubt - an internal chamber - no Excavation has been made in it - a quantity of earth has been taken out of the side of it but the building remains untouched - no information can be obtained about the other one - what so ever
A STONE CIST CONTAINING HUMAN REMAINS FOUND HERE A.D. 1871 [nr. Green Tullochs] (Stone coffin found here A D 1871) 004 A few paces south of the cairn in an arable field a stone coffin of small dimentions containing human remains was discovered - in the summer of '71. I may mention that in the same field and in the vicinity of the cairn several cannon balls have been picked up - which have no doubt been fired at the cairns from the sea - by French ships of war - in the interval of our war with France between the years - 1798 - 1815 as these Cairns have from the sea - the appearance of small forts.

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Ph [Parish] of Reay -- County of Caithness

[Signed] George Hobson C.A. [Civilian Assistant]

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