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Ordnance Survey - Angus county, OS Name Books - Forfar (Angus) county - Volume 74 - Parish of Newtyle, OS1/14/74

Continued entries/extra info

Page] 13
Parish of Newtyle, -- Co. [County] of Forfar -- Sheet 42 No.16 trace 3 & Sheet 43 No.13 1 & 6

Balcraig Castle [note]
"A short distance onwards to the South there is said
to have been a Castle (Balcraig) scarcely any traces of which
now remain. About its site, some urns in a broken state were
turned up by the plough not many years ago"
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Forfarshire
page 559

Subterranean Building [notes]
Note. This being one of those caverns supposed
to be Picts houses the phraseology
here recommed will perhaps best explain the object
The same to be written in stump on plan.

"To the South of Auchtertyre there was discovered within the last forty years
one of those artificial caverns supposed of Pictish Construction"
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Forfe. [Forfarshire]
page 559

Bowbutts [notes]
Note. Bowbutt to be written on plan
in German Text to each Knoll or
mound.

"In a field below Kirkton there are two mounds of artificial
structure used probably as archery butts, - monuments of olden times
one of these has of late been considerably impaired."
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Forfarshire
page 559

Ordnance Survey - Angus county, OS Name Books - Forfar (Angus) county - Volume 74 - Parish of Newtyle, OS1/14/74

This volume contains information on place names found in the Forfarshire parish of Newtyle.

Ordnance Survey - Angus county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Angus, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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