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The third stone is enriched with similar
though not identical ornamentation and
measures 6 ft. [feet] 5 inches in length, 1 ft. [foot] 9 1/2 inches
in breadth at base 8 inches across the flat
top and 1 ft [foot] 1 inch in depth. It differs from
the others in having a prominence at each
end, some 10 inches in length and 3 inches in
height and from the last stone
in being undecorated at the ends. Each
stone appears to have rested on four small round
pillars with square caps several of which
remain. On the top of the stones at
the East end holes have been sunk as if
for an iron post. Locally these stones
are said to cover the remains of three
chieftains slain at the battle of Swordwell
?16th cent [centuty] on O.S. [Ordnance Survey] map.
in the wars of Independence, I think, but
the story is no doubt in print.

1st Oct. [October] 1912
Gretna Par [Parish]
Standing in a field directly to
the North of Westhills farm buildings and
some 80 ft. [feet] distant from the back wall of
the farm house is apparently a Roman
altar. Its extreme height above ground
is 3ft [feet] 9 ins [inches] 3 ft [feet] 2 " being the portion applicable to their "die" and ^ 7 ins [inches] to the cornice or capital:
its breadth 2 ft. [feet] 3 ins[ inches] across
the capital, and 1 ft [foot] 11 ins [inches] across the die, while

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