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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Lilliard's Ston | Lilliard's Stone | to the memory of the maiden who acted so brave a part in that well contested field - We do not wish to disturb the popular belief that a female fought in the ranks of the Scottish army on that day, but we think that there are good reasons for doubting whether the early stone seen at that place was erected to her memory - Even the name of the person, whose fall is said to have been so honored, is open to question - The site of the statue is upon the edge of the Roman way, which there passes the summit of the ridge - it occupies the exact position of the mile stones which these people were in the habit of setting up on the edge of their military ways, and it is probable that this so-called monument was a stone of this kind; but the original stone being destroyed, there is nothing to show that it really was a Milestone Another ground for thinking that the stone, said to have stood at this place was not erected to a person who fell in 1545, is that we find in that locality a stone cross existing under the name of "Lyliot's Cross" nearly two hundred years before that period - A new war having broken out in France, the Scots, to favor |
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