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19 Parish of Arngask County of Perth Sheet 8.15.

[Note - Cairn] Cairn Geddes [Orthography] See page 18. Cairn Geddes.

[Descriptive remarks] ..departed heroes said traditionally to have been interred here, and the result of the investigation was a rude stone coffin found about 6 feet below the surface containing some human bones etc. It is conjecture by some of the inhabitants that a Roman Fort was erected at or about Cairn Geddes, but up to the present the information viewed is not satisfactory on the subject. See the Late Mr. Smalls account.

Smalls Antiquities page 181

"This pass was also well guarded by two forts, which stood at the South end or steep long and narrow pass called the Wects or Wicks of Baigly. The one on the east side obviously points itself out to have been on that beautiful conical hill called Filday Law perhaps from Phildis which is evidently artificial. The other on the rising ground on the opposite or West side has not retained such a pretty name being styled Lousy Law but as a compensation for its name it retains the privilege of having an annual fair for bestial in the month of May, but this vulgar name is evidently a very gross corruption of its original one as it is usually spelled Lusty Law here we have most decidedly the vestige of the name of Agricolas successor Lallastius Lucullus in that of this fort which retains the two middle syllables, It is very natural to suppose that the general in chief would impose his own name upon it calling it Fort Lallustius.