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LocaL SURVIVAL OF PART-OLON’S NAME IN THE DISTRICT OF HIS MONUMENT

Disclosing Phenician origin of names Barthol, Bartle and Bartholomew, and “‘ Brude”’ title of Kings of the Picts.

Tue local survival of the name of this Brito-Phcenician Part-olon in several parts of the district of his monument at Newton confirms still further the decipherment of his name on his monument, as well as the ancient, though now forgotten, importance of his name in the history of Civilization in Northern Scotland.

Whilst there is Wartie and Wart-hill a few miles to the east of Part-olon’s monument (w, p and b being dialectically interchangeable, as we have seen), and Bourtie is the name of the parish a few miles down in the Don Valley below the Stone, on the way to the sea, what seems more significant is the ancient hamlet bearing the name of “ Bartle’’ or “ Barthol Chapel’’ which stands about nine miles to the north-east of the site of the Stone (see map, p. 19) in the old parish of Tarves.

Bartle or Barthol Chapel occupies the site and preserves the name of an ancient Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to St. Bartholomew, which in pre-Reformation days was latterly transferred to the jurisdiction of the great monastic abbey of Arbroath in the adjoining county of Forfar. In the register of the Arbroath monastery are references to this chapel of Bartholomew, also called the “capella de Fuchull ” (or Firchil), dating back to between A.b. 1189 and I1gQ, referring to its transfer to the monks of Arbroath.?

1 For these historical details regarding Barthol Chapel I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. A. R. Sutter, minister of Bartho] Chapel parish.

The present parish of that name was constituted in 1874 at the opening of a memorial church at Barthol by Lord Aberdeen, whose residence is at