OS1/21/55/51

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  3. Lanarkshire OS Name Books, 1858-1861
  4. Lanarkshire volume 55
  5. OS1/21/55/51
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MOUNT PISGAH Mount Pisgah New Statistical Account. James Hamilton, Cot Castle. James Allan, West Mains. Thos. Hamilton, Inspector of Poor. Revd. H. Dewar. 024.09 This tumulus is well known to the people of the neighbourhood as "Pisgah Mount".
The tumulus stands on the top of a natural knoll, and is consequently very conspicuous, although
TUMULUS (Mount Pisgah) Tumulus.
Mount Pisgah		 New Statistical Account.
James Hamilton, Cot Castle.
James Allan, West Mains.
Thos. Hamilton, Inspector of Poor.
Revd. H. Dewar.		 024.09 "About two years ago (from 1846) the farmer of West Mains when removing a cairn of stones from an artificial mound on the banks of the Avon, near Cot Castle, for the purpose of draining, he found, after removing the stones, a fine rich black soil some yards deep. It turned out to have been an ancient Roman Tumulus, upon removing all the stones and coming to the bottom of the cairn, the workmen found a great many urns, some of them in a fine state of preservation, they contained pieces of burned bones and black ash. This tumulus is little more than a mile distant from the Old Roman Military Road from Ayr to Edinburgh".
New Statistical Account.

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"Plasgach, (gael), Gashed, Cut Abounding in gashes",

In removing a stone cairn at Cot Castle, on the banks of the Avon, there was discovered a number of sepulchral urns, elegantly ornamented with flowers and figures, and differing materially from the rude productions of the kinds as commonly to be met within the burial places of the Celtic or Danish inhabitants.
This cairn or Tumulus was little more than a mile distant from the Roman Way, and we may suppose it to have been raised over the ashes of some Roman colonist long settled in the neighbourhood.
Caledonia Romana p 259

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