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The following remarks are relative to the "Hare Stanes" "Heaer Cairns" "Herlaw or Harelaw". Extracted from The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland page 92,3.

"Mr William Hamper, an ingenious English antiquary, has elaborately elucidated the derivation of the name as applied in England, and the use of the Hoar stones, the Menhars, or bound stones, as Stones of memorial, like, the stone Bohan, the son of Reuben, and other ancient land marks of Bible Story. Probably we shall justly esteem the "Hare Stane" as the memorial of the Western boundary of the ancient chase, claimed from time immemorial by the neighbouring capital; but if so, its name has long survived all popular recollection of the meaning which it bore. The same term Hare Stanes, is applied to a circular group of stones near Kirkdean, in the parish of Kirkurd, Peebleshire. It would appear, however, to have been more frequently used in Scotland in the most sacred sense of a memorial, if we judge from the examples of its application as the designation of Cairns, some of which, at least, and probably all, are sepulchral monuments. Among these are the Haer Cairns in the parish of Chinee; the Haer Cairns of Blairgowrie and Kinloch, Perthshire; the Hier Cairns of Monikie Forfarshire; The Herlaw, a gigantic Cairn in the parish of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire; the more celebrated Harlaw of Aberdeenshire; and the Harelaw at Lochore in Fifeshire."