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Parish of Dalmeny -- Sheet 3 -- No.13

At Ferryburn Stone coffins have been found in Considerable numbers and the Springfield rude
forms of burial with the remains the found shows both the nature of the productions of the
soil at that early period and the Care which the Romans took to Collect in the vicinity of
their turres or arces speculatoriae [watch towers] the bodies of the dead which had fallen in the many Conflict
that took place to acquire for the warlike invader the sovereignity of the island. Whilst on the
Subject of such remains we may mention that our friend Mr. A. Whyte of the Terrace Queensferry
to whose zeal and assiduity we have been indebted for multitudes of interesting facts as well
as for courtesy, companionship and attention, in the collection of others states that the high ground to the
east of Queensferry on which the people generally stand to see the races and other sports on the fair
day, has evidently been an ancient place of burial as several stone coffins have been found with bones and
other relics of mortality. It, too would be in the vicinity of some Roman Turris on the line of the
Vallum. And our excellent friend remembers when a boy discovering here along with others a skeleton in
admirable preservation in a very shallow grave, whose beautifully perfect teeth and part of
the bones were bartered with the Candyman for Gibraltar rock. -- The place at the Ferryburn
where the Stone Coffins were discovered is Called "Niven's Green". -- Life on Land & Water at South Queensferry, p. [21]

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