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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of PICTS' DIKE Site of, Picts, Dyke
Site of, Picts, Dyke
Site of, Picts, Dyke
Dike (preferred)
Dike (preferred)
Dike (preferred)
Dike (preferred)
Dyke (In name Grime's Dyke)
Robert Leslie Esqr.
Mr. David K Nicol
Mr. John Leslie
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary
Macleod's Gaelic & English Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary
Roy's Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain A.D. 1793.
051 The site of a Stone wall or Dyke Said to have been six feet high and four feet thick, and enclosing a portion of land, known at the time of its existence, as Laighwood Park, none of the dyke now Stands, it having been taken down about 100 years since, an ordinary Stone dyke has since been erected on the Site of the old one, unless in some short distances. No one can say why this was called the Picts Dyke, but tradition supposes it to have been erected by the Picts, but for what purpose remains a mystery. The land it enclosed was (it is said) granted by Robert II towards the end of the 14th century, to the Earl of Murray. and, with the exception of a Small portion in Caputh parish, still remains in the same family, the title having changed to Duke of Athole.

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Parish of Caputh

[Note] dig - Gaelic, dic - Saxon, dike - Swedish, dijk - Dutch

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