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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BIGGAR WATER Biggar Water
Biggar Water
Biggar Water
Biggar Water
David Dickson Esqr of Hartree
James Wyllie Pyotknowe
Statisl Acct [Statistical Accounts]
Fullarton's Gazetteer
011 ; 015 [situation] Passes about 20 chains N [North] of Hartree
A stream of Considerable size which rises at the N [North] West side of the Town of Biggar, flows in a Southerly direction till its joined by another stream a short distance East of Hartree House (where it takes the name Biggar Water) from thence it flows in an Easterly direction forming the boundary between the Parishes of Kilbucho and Skirling, Kilbucho and Broughton, and Broughton and Glenholm till it empties itself into the Tweed North of Rachan Ho [House]
TUMULUS (Fir Knowe) Fir Knowe (Tumulus)
Fir Knowe (Tumulus)
David Dickson Esqr of Hartree
James Wyllie Pyotknowe
015 [situation] About 1/4 of a Mile N. by W. [North by West] from Pyatknowe
A small Circular eminence on the farm of Pyotknow and for the greater part planted with Fir trees, from which Circumstance it is supposed to have derived its name. It is a Tumulus but has never been explored.

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[Note] - " Near Easterplace of Hartree is a small Know or tumulus visibly a human erection and probably Danish. Seems to have been either a burial mount or an object of direction through this marshy vale as there are similar Stations at Biggar and Wolf-Clyde at equal distances". - Armstrong's Companion to his map.

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