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Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 35a

Copied from Memorials of
Angus & Mearns - Hare Cairn (?)

''About a mile south-east of
'the Church of Aberlemno, in a gravel hillock,
upon the Estate of Pitkennedy, was
lately discovered a rudely constructed
stone coffin containing a clay urn.
Near the urn were scattered a number
of beads composed of jet or camel coal
of which upwards of a hundred were
recovered. With the exception of four
pieces of a square shape, & two of a
triangular form, the rest were oblong,
& pierced laterally, the square pieces being
each pierced with four holes & in the same
way, but the triangular bits were pierced
obliquely. The square & triangular
pieces are variegated on one side by
a dotted ornament resembling a lace
pattern, very much the same as those
found in a barrow near Assynt, in
Ross-shire, only that the spots of those,
unlike the ones found at Pitkennedy,
were said to have been studded with
gold. The Pitkennedy necklace is
probably the most complete hitherto
found in Scotland, & is in the possess:
-ion of John Ingles Chalmers of Aldbar,
proprietor."-

Sir,
The above is all that
Mr. Jervise states about the hillock
which I supposed to refer to "Hare Cairn" -- it does not [initialled] JB
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[Left hand margin note against "stone coffin"]
i.e. a
Stone Cist