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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of CAIRN WOCHEL Cairn Wochill
Carnwochel
Cairn Wochel
Cairn Wochel
New Statistical Account
Chambers' Caledonia
Shearer's Antiquities of Strathearn
Mr. William McNicol
Gunniochs by Redoch
117 The site of an ancient cairn on the district of Corry Our, it was composed of stones, the whole of which have been removed to build stone fences.
"In a cairn, about a mile to the westward, no less than 182 feet in length, 30 feet in a sloping height, and 45 feet in breadth at the base, there was found a Stone Coffin, in which there was a Skeleton 7 feet long, the cairn lay from north to South, and the coffin was nearly in the middle of it, with the head to the east. Most of the Stones have been carried away to inclose the neighbouring farms; but the coffin, with a few large Stones around it, has, by order of Sir William Stirling, been preserved" Old Statistical Account
"Many stone coffins have been found at different times in digging about the Camps or near them; and the skeletons contained in them have been of an uncommon size. About a mile west from the camps, a Stone coffin was found containing a skeleton seven feet long. A mile and a half distant in the muir of Ochill, another was found of the same length, in Cairn Wochill. These have generally been in cairns or heaps of Stones, which may be accounted for, from a practice in former days of throwing a stone upon the respected dead, or upon any place remarkable, in passing by. So among the Highlanders there is still a saying that of one shall do a favour to another, a "stone shall be added to his cairn;" - that is, his grave shall be remembered and respected." New Statistical Account.
On the hill above the moor" says Gordon "are two great heaps of stones; the one called Carnwhochal; the other Carnlee; in the former, the quantity of stones exceeds belief; and I found by mensuration, the whole heap to be about 182 feet in length, 30 in sloping height, and 45 in breadth, at the bottom."
These two Cairns are the British monument of the Caledonians, who fell in the celebrated conflict. Every circumstance concur to evidence that this moor was the bloody scene, where so many Caledonians perished, for their country & freedom." Chambers' Caledonia - should be Chalmers
"There are also upon the muir two huge cairns - one called Cairn Wochel, and the other Cairn Lee. The first is the largest, and according to Gordon, is 182 feet in length, by 45 in breadth, and 30 in sloping height. The name seems Pictish, and akin to the celebrated Penvahel;- we have no doubt the Cairn Wochel implies the cairns at the walls, from being in the vicinity of the Roman ... [continued]

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