OS1/10/30/172

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DEIL'S STANE Deils Stane

Deils Stane
Deils Stane
Rev. Dr. [Reverend Doctor Simpson
John Irving
Matthew Morrison
006 [situation] In Kiln Burn
A huge bowlder stone, lying in the gorge of what is denom [denominated] the "haunted linn," it is supposed to be about thirty ton's weight it is granet [granite], and rounded like [an] Egg, and has every appearance of the Arran Granet, - may have [been] transported in what Geologists [call] the diluvial drift period - Wierd Stories are connected with it but deserving of no attention
HAUNTED LINN Haunted Linn

Haunted Linn
Haunted Linn
Rev. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Simpson
John Irving
Matthew Morrison
006 [situation] On Kiln Burn 27 Chains SW. [South West] of Gled Wood,
Applied to a deep, rugged [glen?] thickly wooded on either [side] situated on the lands of [Carcoside?] the property of his Grace [the Duke of] Buccleuch

Continued entries/extra info

[page] 172

Parish of Kirkconnel Sheet 6 No. 6 Trace 3

[signed] Thomas Watson 2nd Corp. R.E. [2nd Corporal Royal Engineers]

Transcriber's notes

DEIL'S STANE was wrongly transcribed as "DEWS STANE" in the pre-entered data

Several words on the right hand side are concealed by the page fold, not all can be reasonably presumed

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

CRIMSON

  Location information for this page.