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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Priest's Cairn | Site of the Priest's Cairn Stone Coffin found here | Mr John Murray (Haughhead) | 024.07 | "About seven years ago, there was a Cairn on a knap or knoll in the lower part of the parish, on the farm of Upper Tulloch, from time immemorial called the Priest's Cairn, in the progress of Garvock improvements, this Cairn was converted into road metal, and a distinct Druidical Circle, consisting of twelve large stones, was found under it, and within the circle a stone Coffin, composed of Slabs of freestone, not deposited in a pit or grave, but Simply set upon the surface of the ground and covered by the Cairn. In the Coffin nothing was found but unctuous black earth, and four little white substances exactly resembling human teeth, but so soft as to write on a Slate like pencil. It is not easy now to conjecture why the circle contained a Coffin and was Covered by a cairn, for a circle of upright stones consisting of seven, twelve, or nineteen, referring to the days of the week, the months in the year, or the cycle of the moon, with all of which the Druids were acquainted (Caesar 1. 6. C. 14,) was the ordinary place of Druidical worship, as the Cairn was on more solemn occasions. The Circle or Common Druidical temple was erected in a grove, commonly of oaks. The Cairn was erected on high places." - (New Stat Act [Statistical Account] Page 37.) The site of the Cairn was pointed out by Mr J. Murray, a very old man, who states that he formerly resided on the Upper Tulloch, and assisted to remove the Cairn about 34 years ago, he remembered very well about the Circle and Coffin being found, and his statement agrees with the above extract. There is nothing peculiar lookiing on the ground, except that the Corn growing on the site of the Cairn has a yellow and withered appearance. B. Render Corpl. R.E. [Corporal Royal Engineers] 17/7/63 |
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