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This is the largest mausoleum in the Necropolis, yet its situation makes it easy to miss. Part of its roof appears in another contributor's earlier photo: NS6065 : Glasgow Necropolis.

The structure is more impressive from the front (the west), but the building is then so close that photographing anything more than details becomes awkward: NS6065 : The Aiken Mausoleum (detail).

In the present view (from the south), the little area enclosed by the stone balustrade is the burial ground of the Dilettanti Society. The Society was founded in 1824, and purchased this burial ground in 1835 [see pages 260-64 of George Blair's "Biographic and Descriptive Sketches of Glasgow Necropolis" (1857)].

Returning to the Aiken Mausoleum: inside it there are four large tablets fixed on the east wall; these tablets are headed with the names of (from right to left): William Aiken, Barton Aiken of Kipperoch, John Aiken of Dalmoak, and John Belch of Drumoyne. William, Barton and John were brothers; they and their respective lands are discussed in the item on NS3877 : Dalmoak House. John Aiken's wife was Janet Belch, of the family of the above-mentioned John Belch of Drumoyne.