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"In a pretty otherwise plain field N[orth] E[ast] of the Village of Torryburn there is a flat stone raised upon one end of a shape nearly oblong, and measuring from the Surface to the top about 8 feet and about 4 ½ in breadth. Round the edge of it there is a deep circle, and on each of its sides a number of rises, all of which wear the appearance of art and antiquity. At about 18 or 20 paces from this stone, there is a number of smaller ones, which from their present position, seem to have former part of a circle. This place is thought to have been the scene of a battle in some former period, and these stones to mark the graves of some of the chiefs, who had fallen in the engagement. And the supposition is rendered highly probable by the name which it still bears, Tollzies, which is evidently a corruption of the Scotch word Tulzie, which signifies a fight". Ols Stat[istical] Acc[oun]t.
Tuilzie -- A quarrel, A broil, A combat. Jamison Scottish Dict[ionary].