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SHOUGLE Shougle
Shougle
Shougle
Mr J Cruickshank, Tenant
Mr J. Cruickshank junr. [junior]
Lease Papers
012.16 A farm with dwellinghouse and offices attached; property of the Earl of Seafield -
DANISH CAMP (Site of)
Danish Encampment
Mr J. Cruickshank
Mr David Mason Foths
New Stat. [Statistical] Account
012.16 The site of an ancient Danish Encampment as all the ground has been improved there are no traces of it to be seen now. Excrept from New Stat. [Statistical] Account "A Danish encampment at the Shogle having
hitherto escaped the plough share is still to be traced in a well aired dry Situation watered on the west by the burn of Bardon and fortified on the east and north by a Valley it commands a prospect of the Moray
Firth from Speymouth to Cromarty Bay. In confirmation of the opinion that there once existed a Stronghold of the Danes in this Situation it may be stated that th adjoining
farm still retains the name of Edinburgh

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