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SIXTEENTH REPORT
of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, -

We, Your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient and
Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary
culture, civilisation and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the earliest times
to the year 1707, and such further Monuments and Constructions of a date subsequent to
that year as may seem in our discretion worthy of mention therein, and to specify those which
seem most worthy of preservation, humbly present to Your Majesty this our Sixteenth Report,
together with an inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Stirlingshire and a list of those
which, in our opinion, are most worthy of preservation. We also attach an additional list of
monuments, discovered since the presentation of our Fifteenth Report, in areas covered by
our survey of marginal lands likely to be affected by the expansion of agriculture and
afforestation.
We record with grateful respect the receipt of the gracious message that accompanied
Your Majesty's acceptance of the volume embodying our Fifteenth Report with Inventory
of the Ancient Monuments of Selkirkshire.
We desire to acknowledge the welcome assistance given us, during the preparation of the
Inventory, by the owners and occupiers of ancient buildings and sites, and by parish ministers,
throughout the County. We owe particular thanks to Lt.-Col. R. L. Hunter, T.D., B.Sc., F.S.A.,
Mr. A. R. Cross, M.C., B.A., L.L.B., Mrs Feachem, and Mr. R. Swift, for help in the field
survey; to the Trustees of the Smith Institute, Stirling, for permission to take photographs
and to study objects in the Institute; to Miss D. M. Hunter, M.A., Curator of Falkirk Museum,
for advice on the local records; to Mr. W. H. Gillespie, L.R.I.B.A., Burgh Architect of
Stirling, and other municipal officers for assistance in the survey of the Burgh; to Mr. A. R. B.
Haldane, L.L.B., D.Litt., W.S., for information about drove roads; to the Cambridge
University Committee for Aerial Photography, for permission to reproduce air-photographs;
to Sir Thomas Innes of Learney and Kinnairdy, K.C.V.O., L.L.D., Lord Lyon King of Arms,
who kindly revised the heraldic matter in the inventory; to the Geological Survey of Great
Britain, and particularly to Mr. R. J. A. Eckford, F.S.A.Scot., formerly one of its officers,
for advise on geological questions; to the Department of Health for Scotland, for facilities
for the study of air-photographs; and to the staffs of the National Museum of Antiquities
of Scotland, the Ministry of Works and the Scottish Record Office for continued and valued
co-operation.

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