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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GALLOW HILL Gallow Hill Mr A. Sinclair Georgemas Inn
Mr H. Stuart Auchingills
Mr H. Mill Auchingills
011 The largest, - and centre - of three Mounds; each of which greatly resembles the remains of a Picts house. There is no further evidence than the name to show that there ever was a Gallows on this Mound but at its north side - between it and the mound adjacent to it on that side - human bones were exhumed a few year ago Said to have been the remains of a man who committed suicide in this locality and was buried there

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County of Caithness -- Parish of Thurso

[signed] Robert Kane
Sapr R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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