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Parish of Bervie

Sillyflat [Note] See Page 37

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Camp

Camp [Note] The writer of the Statistical account has evidently let his enthusiusm get the better of his judgment, for after enquiry I find that the places named had no appearance of Camps, Forts nor Druidical Circles. Mr. Barclay of Hallgreen who removed two of the objects states they were nothing but the remains of Circular Sheep Folds, And the remaining Circle has not the slightest resemblance to a Camp or Druidical Circle. It is a small portion of Moor ground which was enclosed and planted by the Uncle of the present proprietor, as an experiment to see if Fir Wood would grow on the Hill. So its antiquity is something like "Oldbuck's Kairn of Kinprunes," as the proprietor, "Minds the bigging o't."
B. Render Corp. R.E. [Corporal Royal Engineers] 9/11/63