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Records tagged with Type of Memorial: Other
Witches Gestalt Memorial Garden
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 31 October 2012 - 10:17pm
Revised: 22 November 2016 - 7:27pm — admin
Inscription:
pardoned they are
Margaret Aitchesoun Masle Aitchesoun Agnes Aird Marjorie Andersone Margaret Auchinmoutie Marioun Ballzie (Baillie)
Christian Blaikie Meg Bogtoun Janet Boyd Bessie Broune (Brown)Thomas Brounhill (Brownhill) Wife of Thomas Brounhill Duncan Buchquhannan Margaret Butter Martha Butter
Jonett Campbell Elspeth Cheuslie Thomas Cockburn Marioun Congilton Bessie Cowane Beatrix Cuthbertson Janet Darlig Agnes Dempstar Gelie Duncan Catherine Duncane Thomas Fean
John Flan or Flene Jonett Gall Malie Geddie Helen Gibesone(Gibson) Johnne Gordon Catherene Gray Jonnett Gray Robert Griersoun Issobell Griersoun Issobell Gylloun Margaret Hall Agnes Kelly Cristian Kerington Helene Lauder Issobell Lauder Agnes Liddell Katherine Liddell Jonett Logan Ewfame McCalzean Euphernia McLean Catherine McGill Gilbert McGill Johnne McGill Barbara Mathie Wife of George Moitis Wife of Nichol Murray Ane Nairn Jonett Nicolsoun Marioun Nicolsoun Margaret Oliver Marie Patersoune wife Portar of Seton Helen Quhyte (White) Alexander Quhytelaw (Whitelaw) Wife of John Ramsey Marion Ranking Janet Reid Bessie Riddell Margaret Ridpeth Donald Robinson Anny Rycheson Daughters of Agnes Sampsoun Agnes Sampsoun Marioune Schaw Ane Simson Wife of Smythe Elizabeth Steven Jonett Straitton Janet Strauchane (Strachan) Margrett Thomson Bessie Thomsoune Katherine Wallace Charles Wat Bessie Wrycht (Wright) Margaret Young
Designed by:
Painting June Coull and Adele Roberston; stonecarving by Gardner Molloy; Ceramic tiles by Tim Clapcott; Gates by Tom Ewing
Date:
2005
Material:
paint, stone, ceramic tiles
Location:
to the rear of the Prestongrange Gothenburg Tavern
227 High Street
Prestonpans, EH32 9BE
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Images:
Witches Knowe, hillock with fort on top
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 31 October 2012 - 7:55pm
Dedicated to:
Location:
Steep sided hill with a hill fort on top at NT 5186 6356
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Witches Knowe, execution site of Unknown (Alleged) Witches near Innerwick Farm
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 31 October 2012 - 7:10pm
Revised: 22 November 2016 - 8:29pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Material:
raised ground on farmland
Location:
In a field 500 yds East of Innerwick Farm house and nearly 200 yds S of the road at NT 729 736
Single Knowes Field, Parish of Innerwick
ELN
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Additional information:
A number of (alleged) witches are said to have been burnt on the slightly raised ground of Witches Knowe.
Flame Mosaics commemorating Grissell Jaffray
Submitted by Alison McCall on 31 October 2012 - 4:28pm
Revised: 31 October 2012 - 5:01pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
None
Location:
On the pavement, inside and outside the pend
Peter Street
Dundee, DD1 4JJ
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Images:
Witch Lake on the coast at St Andrews
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 30 October 2012 - 11:40pm
Revised: 12 January 2022 - 6:48pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Location:
A tidal pool on the shore, east of the Aquarium, adjacent to The Scores near The Step (lake at NGR NO 5098 1700)
St Andrews
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Images:
Additional information:
In the 16th and 17th centuries, women who were suspected of being witches were thrown into the Witch Lake, a tidal pool on the coast at St Andrews. If they drowned they were innocent. If they floated it was evidence of their involvement in alleged witchcraft and they would be dragged out of the water and taken to be burnt at the stake on nearby Witch Hill.
Kate McNiven's Crag
Submitted by Elizabeth Ritchie on 26 October 2012 - 2:02pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
none
Material:
Crag on the side of the Knock hill, Crieff
Location:
Monzie, Crieff
Monzie
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Witches Maze at Tullibole Castle
Submitted by Elizabeth Ritchie on 26 October 2012 - 1:31pm
Revised: 14 November 2012 - 10:28am — admin
Inscription:
[The finished memorial is a circle 33m (100ft) wide and consists of 2,000 beech trees. At the centre of the maze is a one and a half ton elaborate sandstone pillar, with the names of the victims etched on it.]
Erected by:
Lord Moncrieff
Designed by:
Sandstone pillar designed by Gillian Forbes
Date:
Planted in 2003-2012
Material:
Maze of beech hedges with a sandstone pillar in the middle
Location:
Tullibole Castle
Crook of Devon, KY13 0QN
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Additional information:
The maze is 100 feet in diameter, designed "also be a attack on the ignorant and superstitious beliefs of the past as well as those in modern day society".
Extracts from the BBC report on the completion of the memorial: "A memorial to 11 people executed for witchcraft in Kinross has been unveiled at the home of those who condemned them. The Witches Maze at Tullibole Castle commemorates the victims of the Crook of Devon witch trials in 1662. The castle was once home to William Halliday and his son John who held court over the 'covens' in the village.
Lord Moncrieff, who now owns Tullibole, commissioned the maze as there is no memorial in Crook of Devon. In 1662 the court sat five times and resulted in the death of 11 suspected witches. Those who survived the trials were taken to a small mound near the current village hall and strangled by the common hangman and their bodies thrown on a fire. Lord Moncreiff commenced on the maze in 2003 ... Lord Moncreiff said: "I dislike public art that has nothing to say and commissioned Gillian [Forbes]because I believe she understands the sensitivity of the task. It is my hope that the memorial will also question our understanding of the past and issues of blame and judgement in modern day society."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20085045
More information about the memorial is available on the Tullibole Castle's Witches Maze website: http://www.tulbol.demon.co.uk/witches_maze.html
The Angel Font, St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness
Submitted by Alison McCall on 23 October 2012 - 9:58pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
To the Glory of God
The Font
Was placed in this Cathedral by
Col and Mrs Learmonth
of Dean, near Edinburgh
1871.
Erected by:
Col and Mrs Learmonth
Date:
1871
Material:
Marble
Location:
St Andrew's Cathedral
15 Ardross Street
Inverness, IV3 5NS
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Images:
Additional information:
The Angel Font is a copy of a font in Copenhagen, but with the face of Charlotte Learmonth.
Dun Deardail, Glen Nevis
Submitted by admin on 23 October 2012 - 3:50pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
[none]
Date:
Unknown (see additional information)
Material:
Vitrified stone
Location:
Dun Deardail
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Additional information:
This vitrified fort, named for the legendary Deirdre of the Sorrows, may be date from as early as 1000BC, and may have been occupied and possibly rebuilt at several different times.
The site has also been known as Dundbhairdghall, Dun Dearduil and Dun Dearg Suil (Hill of the Red Eyes
Relief Stone Sculptured Carving in Memory of Queen Victoria
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 22 October 2012 - 1:34pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
VICTORIA REGINA
1857
Date:
1857
Material:
stone
Location:
On the wall within the quadrangle of the Chambers Institution, opposite the War Memorial
High Street
Peebles, EH45 8AG
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Images:
