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WHITTINGHAME.] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [WHITTINGHAME.

flanks, is 18 feet long by 10 feet broad ; some
20 yards to south-west there is evidence of
two adjoining hollows, too indistinct for
measurement ; 115 yards south-south-west of
the fourth, on the top of the brae running down
to the left bank of the Whitadder, there is
a rectangular area with rounded corners,
17 feet long by 8 feet 6 inches broad, which
seems to have been divided into two com-
partments, the wall being 4 feet 6 inches
broad and showing an entrance on the south-
ern side, while adjacent to the western end,
there is an oval hollow 13 feet long by 8 feet
broad ; and 15 feet to the west there are
faint traces of another group. Along the
top of the brae, about 150 feet above the
Whitadder, for a distance of about 200 yards,
an earthen wall, 5 feet in breadth and 1 foot
in height, has been thrown up, the ends being
carried straight down the steep slope of the
hill to the grassy haugh on the left bank of the
river, forming an enclosure which would give
access to water. Probably the excavations and
the enclosure are contemporary and tend
to confirm the idea that these hollows are the
remains of shielings.

xvi. N.E. (unnoted). 13 June 1913.

224. Small Excavated Hollows, Redstone
Rig, Faseny Water.-About 600 yards north of
Faseny Cottage on the steep south-western
slope of the Redstone Rig, at an elevation of
some 1300 feet above sea-level, are three small
hollows with the excavated material thrown
up towards their lower sides. The first is oval
in shape, the longer axis running north-west
and south-east, and measures 11 feet by 8 feet
by 1 1/2 feet ; the second some 30 yards distant
to the south-east is circular and measures
9 1/2 feet in diameter by 1 foot in depth ; the
third lies 70 yards south of the last and is
slightly oval in shape with quite a prominent
bank on the west-south-west side. Along the
main axis, west-north-west and east-south-
east, it measures 8 1/2 feet while its breadth is
7 feet and its depth 2 feet.

xvi. S.W. (unnoted). 1 July 1913.

CAIRNS.

225. Cairn, Herd's Hill, Faseny Water.-
About 20 yards from the left or north bank of

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the Faseny Water, on a slight terrace at the
foot of the very steep southern slope of Herd's
Hill, almost opposite the Hare Cleugh and at
an elevation of about 1000 feet above sea-level,
is a small cairn of stones overgrown with
heather, oval in shape, measuring 19 feet from
north-west to south-east, 13 feet across and
2 feet in height. On the summit a thin, flat
slab 4 feet in height, 1 foot broad and 7 inches
thick, has been set up on end and is supported
by several boulders. This stone is said to
have been in this position for 60 years at least,
but, as it is not sunk into the cairn, it is pro-
bable that it was erected at a much later
date than the cairn.

xx. N.W. (unnoted). 12 June 1913.

226. Cairn and Enclosure, Priestlaw Hill.-
On the summit of Priestlaw Hill, at an elevation
of over 1250 feet above sea-level, is a circular
stone cairn 40 feet in diameter and 4 feet in
height. Encroaching on the western side is a
quadrangular stone walled enclosure, 54 feet
long and 30 feet broad at the middle, in the
interior of which a cross of loose stones, laid
on the surface of the ground, has been made
in late times. The central portion of the
cairn does not seem to have been disturbed,
although the cairn may have been robbed to
a certain extent to supply material for the
adjoining structures.

xx. N.E. (unnoted). 13 June 1913.

227. Small Cairn, Nine Stone Rig, Johns-
cleugh.-Some 700 yards south-west of Johns-
cleugh and 130 yards west of the cart track
between Mayshiel and Johnscleugh, on the
eastern slope of a heathery muir called the
Nine Stone Rig, at an elevation of rather over
1000 feet, is a small grass covered mound
which, on probing, is found to be made of
stones. It is 12 feet in diameter and 1 foot
in height at the centre.

xvi. S.E. (unnoted). 19 May 1913.

228. Small Cairn, Clints Dod.-At an eleva-
tion of 1307 feet above sea-level, on the summit
of Clints Dod, 1 1/2 miles south-south-east of
Stoneypath Farm steading, is a cairn of stones
overgrown with grass, 9 feet in diameter and