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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CANTSMILN Cantsmiln
Cantsmiln
Cantsmiln
D. Wilkie Esqr. Kirriemuir
Mr. Fleming Occr. [Occupier]
Val. [Valuation] Roll (1861) & 1859
037 A fine farm house having offices attached. The property of the Earl of Airlie.
Numerous STONE CISTS AND URNS FOUND HERE [Kinnaneil] Numerous stone Cists containing Urns & Human Bones found here
Numerous stone Cists containing Urns & Human Bones found here
Numerous stone Cists containing Urns & Human Bones found here
The Rev. [Reverend] Mr. Haldane
Mr. Reid Meikle Kenny
Mr. Adam Bottom
037 In the south East Corner of a field on the farm of Kinnaneil (The symbol on trace points out the place as near as Mr. Reid can shew) there was a small hillock and in the levelling of which numerous stone cists containing Urns & human bones were discovered by Mr. Reid's father.
TUMULUS [Kinnaneil] Artificial Hillock
Artificial Hillock
Mr. Reid of Meikle Kenny and his ploughman who pointed it out on the ground to me
[Initialled] JB
Revd. [Reverend] R. Haldane
037 My attention was drawn to this object by Mr. Reid of Meikle Kenny on whose farm of Kinnaneil it stands, and who on digging into it found burnt wood, unctuous earth and deer's horns - It is an artificial Tumulus of earth.
[Initialled] JB. Major R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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Plan 37-2 -- Parish of Kingoldrum -- Forfarshire

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John Bayly, Major R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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There is only one entry on the page for Tumulus and the wording implies that is at Kinnaneil not Meickle Kenny.

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