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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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CRAMOND [village] | Nether Cramond Nether Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond Cramond |
Revd [Reverend] W. Colvin. W.Clarke. Stat.Acct.[Statistical Account]1845. Gazeteer of Scotland. County map. Sinclairs Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] Railway map of Scotland. Map attached to Stat. Acct.[Statistical Account] 1845 D. Mitchell J. Douglas William Semple |
001 | [Situation] At the N.W. [North West] extremity of the Co. [County] of Edinburgh A small village consisting of a cluster of cottages from two to three storeys high. In it is an Inn & a post office A little south of it is the parish church and school. Chalmers states in his Caledonia, that Cramond is merely a corruption of the British Caer-amon, it appears from Maitland's history of Edinburgh that this was a Roman Station, both Naval and Military, and that three Roman Roads leading to it from the South, West and East also that a Roman Station or Town stood here, which is clear from the number of antiquities found here one of which was an Eagle on a large square stone grasping lightning with its Talons and Crown in its beak also in the place was discovered the base of a column with a medal of Faustinas, Consort to Antoninus Near to the church were found several stonern walls running parallel about 4 feet below the surface of the Ground and from their foundation about three feet high amongst which were found divers medal and Fibula, with a number of Potsheards or broken Items this is Considered to have been a Roman Pottery |
Site of ROMAN STATION [Cramond] | 001 | [Situation] At the N.W. [North West] extremity of the Co. [County] of Edinburgh A small village consisting of a cluster of cottages from two to three storeys high. In it is an Inn & a post office A little south of it is the parish church and school. Chalmers states in his Caledonia, that Cramond is merely a corruption of the British Caer-amon, it appears from Maitland's history of Edinburgh that this was a Roman Station, both Naval and Military, and that three Roman Roads leading to it from the South, West and East also that a Roman Station or Town stood here, which is clear from the number of antiquities found here one of which was an Eagle on a large square stone grasping lightning with its Talons and Crown in its beak also in the place was discovered the base of a column with a medal of Faustinas, Consort to Antoninus Near to the church were found several stonern walls running parallel about 4 feet below the surface of the Ground and from their foundation about three feet high amongst which were found divers medal and Fibula, with a number of Potsheards or broken Items this is Considered to have been a Roman Pottery |
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