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Sheet 87 Plan 9 Trace 5 Parish of Heddon on the Wall

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Turpinshill Plantation Turpinshill Plantation Mr. Hogg North of A young thriving
(Mixed Wood) Turpins Hill Plantation
Turpinshill Plantation Mr. Whitfield
Turpinshill Plantation Mr. Charlton
Site of Site of Mr Hogg on Trace 5 This at one time a conspicuous
ROMAN CAIRN Roman Cairn Cairn or Tumulus. Is now levelled
Site of Mr. Whitfield and all traces obliterated, except
Roman Cairn that the herbage is a little
Site of Mr. Spearman greener & Richer than the remr
Roman Cairn of the field. Several Roman
Cairn MacKenzie’s History Coins &c were found in it
Cairn White’s Directory " In a large Cairn on Turpin’s Hill, in 1771, a large stone chest was found
"enclosing nothing but a small quantity of ashes and burnt bones.
"In 1795 another of these chests was found in the same cairn, it contained
" two Urns and Copper Coins of Domitian, Antoninus Pius and Faustinia
" which are at Eachwick Hall."
Mackenzie’s History

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