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Ordnance Survey - Kincardine county, OS Name Books - Kincardine county - Volume 2 - Parish of Banchory Devenick, OS1/19/2

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[Continued from page 105]
[Note] --"Achorties.
'Auchorties' - There is on the South side of the parish, a Druidical temple worthy of notice. It is situated on an eminence, about a mile
and a half from the coast, and was till within these few years remarkably perfect. It consisted of three circles of Stones within
each other. The outer circle, which was about 45 feet in diameter, consisted of twelve larger stones, placed on end. The inner circles
were composed of smaller ones, placed in the same manner, and between the two outermost, upon the east side, there was
a Stone chest, sunken in the earth, about three feet long, and one and a half wide, which, having been accidentally uncovered
by a country man, he found an urn, which disclosed nothing but a little dust or ashes. A little farther down the hill, towards the
South east, there is another erection of the same kind. It consists of one circle of pretty large Stones." -- (Old Stat Act [Statistical Account] Vol. [Volume] 4. Page 456.)
(collections on the Shires of Aberdeen & Banff Page 265)

[Note Glascairn] -- "Glas - Grey" (Gaelic) -- "Choirean - A little green valley".
"Carn or Cairn - A heap of Stones" (Ibid). Literally The Grey cairn. -- [initialled] B.R.

Ordnance Survey - Kincardine county, OS Name Books - Kincardine county - Volume 2 - Parish of Banchory Devenick, OS1/19/2

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Ordnance Survey - Kincardine 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 Kincardine, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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