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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAPUT LAW Caput Law
Caput Law
Caput Law
Mr Peter Robertson
William Dair
William Miller
076 [Situation] In the northern portion of the parish.
A Small Circular elevation, in a plantation to which it gives name where Courts of Justice were held in former times for the trial of Culprits who, if found guilty, were Hanged on a neighbouring hill Called Gallows Hill
CAPUTLAW PLANTATION Caputlaw Plantation
Caputlaw Plantation
Caputlaw Plantation
Mr Peter Robertson
William Dair
William Miller
076 [Situation] In the northern portion of the parish.
A Plantation of Mixed Wood at the East side of Pipersdam Plantation so named from Caput Law being enclosed within its boundaries.
GALLOWS HILL Gallows Hill
Gallows Hill
Gallows Hill
Mr Peter Robertson
William Dair
William Miller
076 [Situation] In the Southern Side of Caputlaw Plantation
A Small Circular Hill in Caputlaw Plantation, and east from Caput Law, -where the Culprits found guilty on Caput Law were hanged on a Gallows erected thereon. The rock in which the Gallows was affixed exists on its Summit but is overgrown with Heather, Grass, &c &c

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Co. [County] of Perth -- Parish of Lundie & Fowlis Sheet 76 No. 9 Trace 2

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