OS1/11/17/50

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Supposed Site of BATTLE Site of Battle (Supposed)
Site of Battle (Supposed)
John Corson
John Fennie
006 This place is supposed to [be] the site of some great conflict or battle in ancient times. The remains found here are such as indicate the site of a battle [by] the standing stone called Caiy Stone on Caiyside. large cairns which have been some years ago [removed] also the stone coffins found from time to time and the camp which was demolished some years ago. all seem plainly to indicate the site of battle but evidently of a very remote age.

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Parish of Colinton
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"On the lands of Comiston once stood the remains of a large encampment. Adjacent to this camp and near the house of Fairmilehead an extensive and important battle had been fought and two very large conical cairns erected, on demolishing which for the purpose of making the turnpike road remains of human bones were found in them and several fragments of old arms were found in them two of which are still in the possession of Mrs Trotter of Mortonhall, the proprietor of the ground not far from these cairns there had been erected an upright pillar stone which still remains. It is a wide mossy black of whinstone of a flat shape nine feet above the surface of the ground and four feet below it. This called the Kel Stane an old British word signifying the battle stone." Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] of Edinburghshire 1845 Page 119

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