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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STANDING STONE , LONG TOM SLOAN Standing Stone, Long Tom Sloan
Standing Stone, Long Tom Sloan
William Hunter Farmer Cairn Ryan Toll Bar
Peter Stroyan Farmer Meickle Leight by Cairn Ryan
005 This name applies to a stone about Six feet high and about 4 feet in Circumference. Standing on a Tract of moorland on the Farm of MeiKle Leight, There is a current Tradition in the Country that it has gotten this name given from being in a distant view the exact representation of the Size Figure and appearance of a herdsman or Shepherd of the name of Tom Sloan who it appears had formerly been employed in the capacity for a long period.
LEIGHT MOOR Leight Moor Orthography and Description given with Trace No. 3 005

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List of Names collected by Thomas Smith C.A. [Civilian Assistant] -- 1st. Examiner - [page] 41 -- Parish of Inch -- [Plan] 5 A Trace 2

Object - Standing stone, Long Tom Sloan - A Stone
- Leight Moor - A moor

[Signed] Thomas Smith C.Asst. [Civilian Assistant ]
20th. March 1847

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