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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a vitrified fort, a Druidical temple, and numerous tumuli, cairns, and vestiges of encampments. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in this parish called Tatius-Holm. There are also numerous cairns and circular inclosures upon the hills. The parish … the neighbouring parishes. A place here, called Campbell's Cairns, is thought by some to derive its name from a battle … who is said to have concealed his plunder among the cairns. The most important event of modern times connected …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… importance; but there are still remaining several cairns, concerning the origin of which very little is known, … of British camps, numerous ruins of ancient castles, cairns, tumuli, Druidical circles, and remains of abbeys, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… form and is surrounded by a wall of uncertain age. a(50). Cairns and Enclosures N. of Kettle Crag. In a field about m. … Gill and m. S.E. of Wall End (43) are three stone-heaps or cairns, roughly circular and about 21 ft. in diameter. …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 286 d) Stephen de Crechon, lord of Cairns ( de Karnis), and his present wife, of the diocese of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… by the progress of cultivation; and many ancient cairns have been removed, to furnish materials for stone … are to be seen in the latter district, called the Haer cairns, on a moor where some suppose the famous battle to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were discovered some years since. There are also several cairns. Lea LEA, a township, in the parish of Backford, union …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… coast. There are some remains of forts, Druidical circles, cairns, upright stones, and other monuments of antiquity.See … The poor have the interest on 229, funded bequests. Cairns are found in several parts of the parish; and in one … resided: the other antiquities consist of obelisks, cairns, tumuli, and the remains of religious houses, none of …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… J. L.; Turner, Sir G.J.; Wood, Sir W. P.; Bethell, Sir R.; Cairns, Sir H. McC.; Giffard, G. M.; Cookson, W. S.; Gibson, …