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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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MACDUFF'S CROSS | Macduff's Cross Macduff's Cross |
Andrew Spence James Patterson Newburgh |
009 | [situation] About 2 3/8 miles west of Lindores. A small farm house one story high with office houses all in good repair attached to it is a small farm of fourten acres of ground the property of the burgh of Newburgh |
BLACK CAIRN | Black Cairn Black Cairn |
Andrew Spence James Patterson Newburgh. |
004; 009 | [situation] On the summit of Black Cairn Hill. A Cairn on the summit of a hill of the same name. It is a pile of hand stones of a conical shape about thirty links in diameter and about six feet high it was collected into its present size and position at some remote but unknown period for a boundary mark on an undefined line of boundary between the Parishes of Abdie and Newburgh, on its summit is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] station called Black Cairn. [Note] As this cairn was constructed merely for a boundary mark I think it cannot with propriety be written as an antiquity. |
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