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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Cairn Wochel | Continued | ... Roman Camps. In Richard's Map, an altar is represented a little north of Lindum; it is probable Cairn Wochel is that altar, and that Cairn Lee is also a monument of Druidical superstition. In such cairns are generally found urns, or cist-vaen (stone chests), containing ashes of the dead, and skeletons in stone coffins. Accordingly, on opening Cairn Wochel, a stone coffin was found, wherein was a skeleton seven feet long". Shearer's antiquities of Strathearn. |
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| Site of CAIRN LEE | Cairnlee Cairn Lee Cairn Lee |
Chambers' Caledonia Shearer's Antiquities of Strathearn Mr. William McNicol, Gunniochs, by Ardoch |
117 | The Site of an ancient Cairn on the south face of Corry Our, it was composed of stones, the whole of which have been removed to build Stone fences with. The foregoing quotations apply to this object also, but it is a mistake on the writer of N.S. [New Statistical] Account to give their position on the Muir of Orchil, it should be on Corry Our |
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