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Spynie

Burgh (Medieval)

Site Name Spynie

Classification Burgh (Medieval)

Canmore ID 16461

Site Number NJ26NW 11

NGR NJ 22 65

NGR Description NJ c. 22 65

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Spynie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ26NW 11 c. 22 65

Location formerly entered as NJ 227 655.

See also NJ26NW 33 and NJ26NW 38.

Spynie was a village on the side of the Loch of Spynie which was erected into a Burgh of Barony in 1451 and into a Burgh of regality in 1452. Nothing remains of it except the market cross. (NJ26NW 9 and NJ26NW 12 )

G A Cooke 1810.

No further information was found regarding this village during field investigation.

Visited by OS (W D J) 29 November 1962.

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