Pitscottie

Coordinates: 5618N 256W

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Pitscottie is a village in the Parish of Ceres, Fife, situated on the Ceres Burn at a road junction to the south of
Dura Den and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Cupar. The nearby Pitscottie Moor was a favourite meeting place of
Covenanters during the late 17th century and during the 1820s the village became a centre of flax spinning.
There is an 18th-century bridge over the Ceres Burn.

Robert Lindsay
It was the home of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, who wrote the first vernacular prose history of Scotland
entitled The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland, 1436 - 1565.

Frances Groome
In 18824, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Pitscottie like this:

"Pitscottie, a hamlet in Ceres parish, Fife, on the right bank of Ceres Burn, 1 mile NE of Ceres
village and 3 miles ESE of Cupar. It takes its name, signifying the 'little hollow,' from its position
between two confronting rising-grounds at the entrance to Dura Den; and two flax spinning-mills
were erected at it in 1827. A 'countrie hous covered with strae and ried,' which stood on a small
adjoining plateau, now occupied by the modern farmstead of Pitscottie, was the residence of
Robert Lindsay, author of the quaint Chronicles of Scotland from 1436 to 1565. Pitscottie Moor, in
the immediate neighbourhood, was a frequent meeting-place of the Covenanters for field
preachings; and is named in a decree of 1671 against certain ousted ministers."

Sources
Ord. Sur., sh. 41, 1857.

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