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Picts was and is called Pitalpy formed by a corruption
of or rather an elision of the final n in Alpin. Pitalpy
is close to the road leading from Dundee to Cupar-in-Angus
somewhat more than three miles from the former and about
[one] from the field of battle. At this place Alpins body was
buried and his [hence] its name Pit Alpin the Hole or grave
of Alpin.
Thomson's History of Dundee, p. [page] 11

The death of Alpin is said to have happened with
the Picts near Dundee where he was taken and beheaded. This
story is retold by Buchanan and by the other perverters of the
Scottish history down to Guthrie. The Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Liff Parish
wherein the battle is supposed to have been fought near
a place called Pit-alpie and in former times
Bas-alpin gives its additional testimony. The Bas-alpin
we are to understand signifies in the Irish language
the death of Alpin. Now the fact is that Elpin reigned
along with Drest over the Picts from 725 to 730 when a
Civil war raged with great violence among that people
To this warfare Drest fell a victim in 728 and after
several bloody battles in which Elpin and his party
were worsted he at last fell before the superior
force of Ungus in 730 A.D. at a place in the parish of
Liff in Forfarshire which from that circumstance has
been named Bas-alpin and Pit-alpie. See Hist. [History] of the
Picts ch. [chapter] i. p. [page] 196 It is thus apparent that Boece Bellen-
-den Buchanan and other fablers have confounded the
Pictish Elpin who fell in 730 A.D. at Bas-Elpin in For-
-farshire with the Scots-Irish Alpin who fell more than
a century afterwards at Laicht-Alpin in Ayrshire
Chalmers Caledonia vol. [volume] I page 303