. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. mile away. Yet another, the most westerly one, Helgs Hole, isoften tenanted by the tinkers and vagrants. Another cave has manyhieroglyphics. Gordonstoun House is about a half-mile inland. The principal front is to the north andon it are two full achievements. That to the east bears arms, Huntlyimpaling Lennox. That on the west side, bears arms, Huntly andInnes quartered. 270 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT St Michaels Church, Ogston, is a little more to the south. On the site of this Church is amausoleum of the Gordonstoun family
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. mile away. Yet another, the most westerly one, Helgs Hole, isoften tenanted by the tinkers and vagrants. Another cave has manyhieroglyphics. Gordonstoun House is about a half-mile inland. The principal front is to the north andon it are two full achievements. That to the east bears arms, Huntlyimpaling Lennox. That on the west side, bears arms, Huntly andInnes quartered. 270 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT St Michaels Church, Ogston, is a little more to the south. On the site of this Church is amausoleum of the Gordonstoun family erected with stones, it is said, from the old Church ofOgston. Even that namehas been forgotten, andwhy Michael is notknown, as the Churchwas dedicated, not toSt Michael but to StPeter. In this churchyardare a number of seven-teenth century (Fig. 73) to ThomasYoung, of date 1629,being especially arms on it are :—Asaltire couped between astar in chief, a huntinghorn in base, and twocrescents in flanks,impaling, Three birdspassant. These Fig. 73.—Shield at St Michaels Church, Ogston. bear no resemblance to the usual arms of Here there is also a cross, consisting of a shaft fixed in a stone socketwith ornamental top similar to that at Kinneddar, only smaller. Hopeman A couple of miles west of Covesea lies Hopeman. Like all seaboardprovinces, Moray was in the olden days the scene of continual strifebetween the Danes and the Scots, of which a remarkable memorialremains to this day in the parish of Duff us. We find Malcolm II., father of Malcolm Canmore, in 1010 leading anarmy against Camus, a Danish warrior, and killing him in battle at large obelisk still stands in memory of the dead chief and the placeis called the Keam, evidently a corruption of Camus. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 271 The next foreign visitors were the French smugglers. During theseventeenth century, they paid frequent visits, and owing to thefacilities of the caves alon
Size: 1547px × 1615px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidelginpastpre, bookyear1914
