Panmure Testimonial
(Panmure Monument)

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ambustane or Camustane, a hill (500 feet) in Monikie parish, Forfarshire, culminating 1¼ mile WSW of Panmure House, 5 miles NW of Buddon Ness, and 9 ENE of Dundee. It is crowned by both an ancient monument and the ` Live and let live Testimonial ' in honour of the late Lord Panmure. The ancient monument is an ornamented stone pillar, in the form of a cross; and is alleged to mark the spot where Camus, the Danish general, was slain and buried in 1010, after the apocryphal rout of his army by Malcolm II. at Barry. The Panmure testimonial was erected in 1839 by the tenantry on the Panmure estate, 'to perpetuate the memory of a nobleman who, through a long life, made the interests and comforts of his tenantry his sole and unwearied object.' Constructed after a design by John Henderson of Edinburgh, it rises to the height of 105 feet from the ground, and consists of a broad lower basement of rustic work, containing one or two small rooms, a quadrangular upper basement, the angles of which are flanked with heavy open buttresses, a colossal cylindrical column rising up into a balustrade, and surmounted by an ornamental vase, and an interior pillar in the centre of the cylindrical column, winged all round with a spiral staircase; and it fingers conspicuously over a great expanse of country and of neighbouring estuary and ocean.

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