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- ↑ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland
- ↑ "Scotlands Places". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ "Newtyle Village website". Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ↑ The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. VI, Ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 534
- ↑ Map 26 by Timothy Pont of "Lower Angus and Perthshire east of the Tay" circa 1580s and 1590s
- ↑ The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.Vol. 4, page 50 (1892). Authors: MacGibbon, David; Ross, Thomas. Publisher D.Douglas, Edinburgh.
- ↑ The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1884). Published by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works. London: 45 Ludgate Hill. Glasgow: 48 Gordon Street.