- this term of Gaelic origin is used of a peak or pinnacle on a hill, specifically of Ben Rinnes in Banffshire. James Brown's Morayshire text The Round Table Club (1873) includes the following account:
I hae thocht mony a time aboot that mysel' fin' I wis herdin' sheep, an' lookin' at the scurrans o' the hill-heid. The top of the mountain has been worn down by the weather leaving this scurran as a remnant.