OS1/19/13/39

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Glasslin Burn Glasslin Burn
Glasslin Burn
Glasslin Burn
Mr David Lindsay (Bervie)
Mr James Smith (Upper Fernyflatt)
Mr John Grant (Upper Bellfield)
021.07 This name applies to a Small burn from near Fernyflatt to the Sea. The authorities quoted are not good for spelling, and as there is diversity of opinion about the proper Spelling of Lin or Linn, please adopt that usually written on Ordnance Plans. [Initialled] B.R.
Stone Cists and Urn found here Stone Coffins and Urns found here
Stone Coffins and Urns found here
Mr. James Smith
Mr. John Grant
021.07 There were found about 8 or 9 years ago at the places marked on Trace two Stone Coffins, in one of the Coffins were two Skeletons Said to be those of a Male and Female of mature growth, the Skeletons were almost entire, and in the Same Coffin were two Urns of dried clay containing ashes &c. One of the Urns is now in possession of Mr James Smith, Upper Fernyflatt, it is in good preservation and appears to have been ornamented by cross lines as shown on sketch. [Sketch inserted on page]. In the other Coffin was one Skeleton, but no Urn. The Skeletons were interred in the Grave Yard at Kinneff. The place where they were found is a very dry hillock composed of hard gravel, and the dry nature of the place may probably account for the Skeletons and Urns being in such a good state of preservation. [Signed] B. Render Corp. R.E. 21/12/63 [Corporal Royal Engineers. 21 December 1863]

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Parish of Kinneff & Catterline

Glasslin Burn [note] - "Lin, Lyn, Lynn, A cataract, the pool under a cataract,
the face of a precipice &c." (Jamieson)
"Whyles owre the linn the burnie plays" (Burns)

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