OS1/21/18/81

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GOLD SCOURS Gold Scours James Martin, John Gill, Estate Plan (Barony of Hopetoun). 049.04 "On Short Cleuch Water in Crawford Moor, he brought another goodly watercourse and intended to make several dams there to contain water for the buddles and scourers, and for washing gold of which he found store, and purposed to have built another dwelling house, and cut his purse bottom by the extravagant entertainment with which he used strangers. Thus he wasted what he got in gold which was very much. He got as much
OVER CLEUCH Over Cleuch, Over Cleugh James Martin M.D. (Leadhills), John Gill (Leadhills), Estate Plan (Barony of Hopetoun). 049.04 A small burn rising on the brow of a hill and falling into Shortcleuch Water near the Gold Scours.

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