OS1/21/19/48
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| might not be convenient to include in the Circle of the entrenchment, but from which the garrison might receive much annoyance. This smaller camp occupies a small eminence, and must necessarily have been carried before an attack could have been made on the principal one from the East. A clearly marked road leads to these fortifications from the same direction but cannot be traced beyond the limits of the hill itself, owing to the intervention of ploughed fields. The supply of water must have been derived from the small stream on the west of the larger fortification. These camps are known in the Country by the name of Cow or Kow Castle. Mr Sim was at first inclined to suppose that it had obtained this appellation from being a place of refuge for the cattle, but on further reflection thins that it ought rather to be traced to the Scotch word, Kow, the twigs of any shrub or plant cut and made into a bundle; thus we have the broom Kow so well known to every curler, the heather Kow, Cowden Knowes etc. I completely agree with this latter explanation, most especially as the Scotch for cattle would not be Cow, but kye'. (on the ancient camps of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire by G.V.Irving Esqr.) | ||||
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No. 21Lanarkshire Culter Parish
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