Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Boreland

Boreland, a farm in Walston parish, Lanarkshire. A brass tripod, supposed to be Roman, was exhumed on it by the plough, and two caverns on it, one of them 40 feet long and 5 feet high, are believed to have been formed by mining operations in the reign of James V.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a farm"   (ADL Feature Type: "agricultural sites")
Administrative units: Walston ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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