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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHESTER HILL Chester Hill Revd. [Reverend] Thomas Watson, Minister
Mr. Alexander Hunter, Schoolmaster
Mr. Alexander Lindsay, Covington Mill
Mr. Hugh Lindsay, Covington Mains
033.06 A medium sized arable hill with the remains of a Roman Camp, called Chester, on its summit, from which the hill derive its name.
Property of Sir Norman McD[onald] Lockhart Bart. [Baronet]
ROMAN CAMP (Remains of) [Chester Hill] Chester




Chester


Chester


Chester



Camp

Camp

Camp






Chesters Out Post
Chesters Out Post
Revd. [Reverend]
Thomas Watson, Minister
Mr. Alexander Hunter, Schoolmaster
Mr. Alexander Lindsay, Covington Mill
Mr. Hugh Lindsay, Covington Mains
Mr. Robert Denholm
Mr. William Paterson
Revd. [Reverend] John Vary
Johnston's County Map
Forrest's County Map
033.06 This is one of the few instances in Scotland where Chester [underlined] is applied to the remains of a Roman Camp, the derivation being evidently from the ^Latin^ word Castra - a camp. It is generally believed, by the inhabitants in its vicinity, to have been a Roman Station; although all that remains of the Camp at present are two circular ramparts, 5 feet high and 240 feet in diameter, yet it is generally acknowledged to have had an outer quadrangular enclosure-this, however, has been long since entirely defaced. No antiquities have been found at it.

Transcriber's notes

In the description of "Chester Hill" the word "derive" appears to have had an "s" at the end which seems to have been obliterated. It should have been "derives".

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