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Thread #158710   Message #3757194
Posted By: GUEST
09-Dec-15 - 06:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
Subject: RE: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
Hello Paul.
Not being an academic I have up to now relied on an excellent memory
[academics I understand are prone to take note of every small detail]

[1]----check out Edinburgh University's excavation of a burial mound at Wemyss, Fife.----- Wemyss, forby being a surname is also I understand, the pictish word for a cave.

[2]----early 19th. C. drought, Moray Firth, excavation for a well in the town of Burghead.

P.S.--for refs. to both I may, given time, be able to come up with    something from the back nos. of the journals of the proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
FSA Scot.