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[Opposite page drawing inserted "Bessie Edgar"]
[Opposite page Photograph Inserted]

pastors of Irongray and adjacent parishes.
Some 25' to the Eastward is another "table"
stone dated 1707 to the memory of Bessie Edgar
at the lower end of which standing up 2" in
relief is a female figure 1' 8" in length in a
full pleated bodice & skirt with a belt a waist
holding in her right hand a book inscribed
"The word of God."
About 25' due S. [South] of the E [East] end of the church
another stone commemorates James An:
:derson of Knockshinnoch, who died in 1733,
and his family At the foot within a foli:
:ageous border is a curious group of figures
On the left side a woman with legs very much
foreshortened; in the centre a man dressed
& armed as a Roman gladiator with swords
and buckles in combat with an animal
probably a wolf while above these figures is a
lion passant. I took a photo but the light
was bad and I am doubtful of the results.

Kk. [Kirkpatrick] Irongray
Hall-hill "Mote"
Immediately to the S. [South] of the farm of Hallhill
the land rises in a steep grassy bank to a
height of 300' above the Cluden Water
which runs parallel with it. Crowning
this bank at this point is a rocky ridge extending
from E. by N [East by North] to W. by S. [West by South] and gradually rising

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DANIALSAN, Jane F Jamieson