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    its caves (the place-name derives from Gaelic uamh, 'cave'); there are eleven caves, several of which contain Pictish incised carvings. The caves were...
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  • cliffs between East and West Wemyss Wemyss Cave, a cave in Fife, Scotland, where very early prehistoric art was found West Wemyss, a village on the north shore...
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    wooded river. The name Wemyss is derived from the Scottish Gaelic uaimh which means cave. It is believed to be taken from the caves of the Firth of Forth...
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    Historic Environment Scotland. "MacDuff's Castle and Dovecot and the Caves at East Wemyss (SM817)". Retrieved 24 February 2019. Historic Environment Scotland...
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    on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil. Buckhaven is on the Fife Coastal Path, and near to Wemyss Caves and Largo Bay. The name Buckhaven...
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    believed to be taken from the caves of the Wemyss, Fife, by the Firth of Forth, where the Wemyss family made their home. Wemyss Castle in Fife has been the...
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    'Cave Place', from uaimh, 'cave', and es, an obsolete Gaelic suffix meaning 'place of'. The parish gives its name to the family and Earls of Wemyss. Nearly...
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    or early forms of the symbols are carved on the walls of coastal caves at East Wemyss, Fife and Covesea, Moray. It is therefore thought likely that they...
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  • nobles. Now the caves are under serious threat from erosion; the sea is already lapping at the cliff just below the cave line. But Wemyss Caves have never...
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    and a boat at the Ri Cruin Cairn in Kilmartin, and a boat pecked into Wemyss Cave, are probably the oldest two-dimensional representations of real objects...
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  • Wemyss Bight (6 April 1990 – 15 April 2009) was a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was successful in her only start...
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    East Wemyss, Elie Inverkeithing Kincardine, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy Leven, Lower Largo Methil North Queensferry Pittenweem Rosyth St Monans West Wemyss South...
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  • cards in the Hunterian Museum. Museums Journ 80 no. 2, 86–9. 1981b The Wemyss Caves, Fife. Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow (with Jane Glaister)....
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  • Museum in 1895.: 27  These rubbings include some of the earliest done at Wemyss Cave. As a woman Maclagan was disbarred from obtaining a fellowship of the...
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    Cellardyke Central Park Ceres Charlestown Clackmannanshire Bridge Coaltown of Wemyss Collessie Comrie Cowdenbeath Craigluscar Hill Craigrothie Craigtoun Country...
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    and a boat at the Ri Cruin Cairn in Kilmartin, and a boat pecked into Wemyss Cave, are believed to be the oldest known representations of real objects...
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    Douglas (died 1700), married David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss (1699–1756) Francis Wemyss-Charteris (1723–1808) Francis Charteris...
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    Bridge, Hatchet Bay caves, and Surfer's Beach in the north, and Ocean Hole and Lighthouse Beach at the south end. Preacher's Cave on the north end was...
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    September 1887, one of seven children of Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857–1937), and Mary Constance Wyndham, of The Souls fame. Among her siblings...
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  • officer) Evelyn Webb-Carter William Wedderburn James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss Steven West David Fane, 15th Earl of Westmorland Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron...
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    and a boat at the Ri Cruin Cairn in Kilmartin, and a boat pecked into Wemyss Cave, are probably the oldest two-dimensional representations of real objects...
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  • Charteris, Lord Elcho and Yvo Alan Charteris, sons of the Earl and Countess of Wemyss of Stanway House. Many were the children of The Souls, with Lady Diana Manners...
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    and its aftermath, "Mémoire d'un Ecossais", recently unearthed by Alice Wemyss in the French Foreign Office archives, John Sibbald Gibson wrote, "Lochiel...
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    office of Lord Clerk Register, replacing David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss. He retired from this office in November 2022, and was succeeded by Lady...
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  • his hapless limousine driver, Duncan. Li'l Elvis Jones – voiced by Stig Wemyss (Wendy Stapleton provides his singing voice) Lionel Dexter – voiced by Kylie...
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  • This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX...
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  • town by her uncle, Brianna is approached by an indentured servant Joseph Wemyss, who begs Brianna to take his daughter, Elizabeth, as her servant so she...
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  • of Wemyss Margaret Wemyss (Mackenzie) Lady Burntisland by first marriage Countess of Cromartie by second marriage David Wemyss, father David Wemyss, son...
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  • Gloucestershire 13 February 2005 (2005-02-13) 132 8 "Picts and Hermits: Cave Dwellers of Fife" Wemyss, Fife 20 February 2005 (2005-02-20) 133 9 "Lost Centuries of...
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  • Bronze Age well site on Sanday, Pictish carvings in Jonathan's Cave near East Wemyss, and the rescue of an Iron Age site on North Uist Viking boat burial...
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