OS1/23/10/55

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LEEKHOUSE Leekhouse
(supposed ancient burial ground)
Leekhouse (supposed ancient burial ground)
Leekhouse (supposed ancient burial ground)
J.G. Moodie Heddle Esq. Melsetter Hoy Rev. R. Watson, Moness Mr J. Robb, farmer Linksness 112 Supposed ancient burial ground situated about 1/8 of a mile south of Moness and the same distance south east of Linksness. No reliable information concerning this burial ground is obtainable but the inhabitants and the proprietor are of the opinion that it has been at some period or other used as a burial ground though now nothing but seemingly a piece of rough pasture, and no traces of there ever having been a house on the spot as the name implies there has. Leekhouse means "dead house" in the former language spoken by the inhabitants.
STONE CIST AND HUMAN REMAINS FOUND A.D. 1876 [Leekhouse] Stone Cist and Human Remains found A.D. 1876 J.G. Moodie Heddle Esq. Melsetter Hoy Mr J Robb, farmer, Linksness
Mr William Clouston, Joiner, Moness
112 In the year 1876 while Mr Isaac Robb (who hold the farm of Linksness in which Leekhouse is situated) was ploughing the field he discovered a rude stone cist and human remains on this spot.

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