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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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Site of DRUIDICAL CIRCLE [Windmill Knowe] | Druidical Circle (supposed) | Parish Statistics John Carruthers Kirkhill John Charters Parish Schoolmaster |
025 | The circle stands on the open [---]moor, betwixt the [--] Windmill Knowes, and [---] Stefenbiggin Burn, [---]measures about 12 feet in [---], the stones are very large or firmly fixed and will be shortly removed for building purposes. It may have some Druidical connection but [---] it is said in the district to be something of that but no grounds to believe correctly [ Not worth notice as a druids] |
STAFFENBIGGING BURN | Steffenbigging Burn Staffenbigging Burn |
John Carruthers Kirkhill Samuel Rogerson Esq [Esquire] Leithenhall Mr Rogerson Fingland See following Page |
025 | Gathers near Howslack and runs westward for about half a mile, after which it is called [---] Burn. Stay-fin-bigging the building at the white steep land this particular description of this and seems the etymology as originally used as also [---] |
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138 Parish of Wamphray Sheet 25.13 Trace 6Unable to read extreme right of page
Steffenbigging Burn situation From the junction of Stream 8 Chains South from Drygill Rig South West to Kirk Burn
Note " To set up ones staff" a quaint Scottish legal phrase was applied when parties took up a residence acquired from another by the resignation of a baton or staff. As no information can be obtained in locality respecting the derivation of the name, probably hence the origin of the name - bigging in the Scottish signifies a house. M [Turnor]
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