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in discs or barbed points ^ The other side is divided by incised lines into four horizontal bands. Along the crest
is an ornamentation formed of three interlacing
cords. The stone was recently found
while a drain was being dug at the bottom of
the garden.

Cairns site
About 100 yds [yards] to the North West of the saw
mill at Mossknowe is the foundations of
a cairn.

Cairns Mossknow
Situated some 40 yds [yards] to the South of the road
from Beltenmount Bridge to Rig and about
1/2 m. [mile] due South of Mossknow is a cairn
which was excavated in 1908 by Miss Dorothea
M. A. Bate. The cairn is circular with a
diameter of some 50 ft. [feet] and elevation of about
4 ft. [feet]. Beneath the stones that formed the cairn
near the centre was found a layer of clay,
a foot thick, and yellowish in colour, which
contained a large quantity of quartz. On
the removal of the clay there came to light
a slab 5ft. [feet] 6 ins. [inches] in length by 2 ft. [feet] 6 ins. [inches] in
breadth lying roughly East and West be:
:neath which was a second and larger
slab measuring 7 feet by 4 feet, the cover of
a cist 22 ins. [inches] deep, 23 ins. [inches] wide and 4 ft [feet] 3
ins [inches] long. The joints were carefully plastered
with clay and the bottom was covered

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