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The stone measures 21" x 18".
Standing a few feet out from the wall in the NE. [North East]
corner of the church are two cross slabs des:
:cribed in the Early Christian
Monuments, also in Harper's Galloway Rambles.
Adjacent to the mural tablet also built into the
wall is a curiously carved stone measuring
13" by 7". At the upper end are two (?) ravens transfixed
by a dart and beneath the letters PMK and
the date 164-. At the lower end of the stone
is a small square of 3 1/2" hollowed to a depth of
1/2".

[Sketch inserted here]

20th July 1911.
T. Bryce joined me yesterday and today
we set out to visit the N. [North] of Minnigaff Par. [Parish].
The weather was doubtful when we started but
at Newton Stewart we got a motor & proceeded.
Before we reached our first objective the rain
was falling heavily and so it continued through:
:out the day.

Minnigaff Par. [Parish] Kirriemore Defensive Enclosure. (Unnoted)
Directly behind the shepherd's house at
Kirriemore is a circular elevated plateau on
the end of a low natural ridge. It is surrounded
by a scarp some 5' to 6' in height & showing a

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