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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BUCKLERHOLE Bucklerhole
Bucklairhold
Bucklerhole
Bucklerhole
Bucklerholl
Bucklerhole
Robert Grierson
Robert Grierson sold leases
James Campbell
Robert Hutchison
Ancient Valuation Rolls
Modern Valuation Rolls
050 [Situation] About 3 miles n.n.W. [north north West] of Mouswald village
An Old Farm Steading with farm of land attached the Property of Sir Alexander Grierson Bart. [Baronet] & Occupied by Robert Grierson
ELF KNOWE TUMULUS (Site of) Elf Knowe
Elf Knowe
Elf Knowe
Robert Grierson
James Cravens
Alexander Hutchinson
050 [Situation] About 3 miles N. N. W. [North North West] of Mouswald village
A in an arable field on the Farm of Bucklerhole the "Knowe or mound" from which the name had its origin has been cleared away between 20 & 30 years & is now level with the rest of the field.
Some portions of human skeletons are said to have been got at the place — Alexander Hutchinson Farmer Locharside, says that He has some of the teeth in his possession that were got at this place
This Was a Cairn or Tumulus,

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Parish of Mouswald -- Plan 50.14 Trace 1

[Signed] John Stoddart Lce. Corpl Rs&m [Lance Corporal Royal Sappers & Miners]

Transcriber's notes

I have deleted Tumulus (site of) as a separate entry in List of Names as it doesn't appear in the Index - only Elf Knowe (see also http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/rcahms/66139/elf-knowe/rcahms) - and the Descriptive Remarks is a single combined entry

check Descriptive Remarks for Elf Knowe - the 2nd word (spot?) has been scored out but not replaced, so the sentence doesn't make sense. check line 2 - if it is a correction or another letter? between 'Bucklerhole' and 'the'. It is not an 's' in Stoddart's style.

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