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

an interior diameter of about 9 feet, and the
wall is 4 feet broad rising 6 inches above ground.
Some 45 yards to the south-east is a cairn
9 feet in diameter and 9 inches in height.
The stones of both are only found by deep
probing. About 60 yards to the east-south-east
is another cairn of similar dimensions.

xvi. N.E. (unnoted). 14 June 1913.

234. Cairns and Hut Circles, Kingside Hill,
Mayshiel.-Round the highest part of King-
side Hill, which rises to an elevation of about
1100 feet above sea-level, and about 3/4 mile
north-east of Mayshiel are a number of small
cairns of stone and two stone hut circles, all
overgrown with grass but showing stones up
to 10 inches and 12 inches in breadth peeping
through the green covering. The first structure
lies above the brow of the hill overlooking
Kingside Burn some 400 yards distant to the
north. It is 18 feet in diameter and rises
1 foot above ground, but, being only slightly
hollow in the centre, it is difficult to say
whether it is a hut circle or a plundered cairn ;
some 68 yards south-east is a cairn 18 feet in
diameter and 2 feet high in the centre ; about
62 yards to the north-east of the last, and
lying east of the first, is a hut circle 7 feet in
diameter inside, with walls 4 feet thick and
about 1 foot high with signs of an entrance
to the south, and three boulders 14 inches in
diameter on the outside line of the wall on the
south-eastern arc ; some 21 feet south of this
hut circle is a smaller example with an interior
diameter of 4 1/2 feet and wall about 3 feet thick
with stones of 8 inches in thickness in the wall ;
about 100 yards south-east of the larger hut
circle there are the remains of a plundered
cairn 25 feet in diameter and now 1 1/2 feet in
height, the stones removed from the south-
eastern portion of the cairn being thrown down
in a heap beside it ; about 40 yards east-south-
east of the large hut circle is a cairn 10 feet in
diameter and 1 foot high with four or five
stones, 1 1/2 feet by 1 foot in size, piled on the
top and numerous other smaller stones peeping
through the grass. A further group of five
cairns 12 to 14 feet in diameter are situated
some distance down the south-western slope
of the hill, of which four appear complete,
but all that remains of the fifth is a few of

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the larger stones which had been placed round
the outer edge of the cairn.
This group of hut circles and cairns is some
300 yards east of the stone circle (No. 240)
and two cairns (No. 231).

xvi. S.E. (unnoted). 6 June 1913.

235. Small Cairn and Hut Circle, Johns-
cleugh.-About 3/4 mile west of Johnscleugh on
the top of the brae sloping down southwards
to the Hazelly Burn, about 150 yards distant
from it and some 300 yards west of the junction
of the South Grain Burn and the Hazelly
Burn, is a heather

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 180.-Stone Setting
Mayshiel (No. 238).

covered mound 12
feet in diameter and
rising 1 foot in height
at the centre, which,
on being probed, was
found to be of stones
covered with a depth
of peaty soil. Three
feet to the north is
what appears to be
the stony foundation
of a hut circle, 16
feet in diameter in-
ternally, with an en-
trance facing the cairn. The elevation is about
1050 feet above sea-level.

xvi. N.E. (unnoted). 30 May 1913.

236. Small Cairn and Hut Circle, Bleak Law
Rig, Johnscleugh.-On the gentle eastern slope
of the Bleak Law Rig, at an elevation of 1000
feet above sea-level, some 600 yards north-
west of Johnscleugh and 200 yards south-west
of Garvald and Priestlaw road, is a hut circle
with an exterior diameter of 27 feet and an
interior diameter of 15 feet. The stone wall
which rises 1 foot 6 inches above the interior
is 6 feet in breadth, increasing to 9 feet on the
western arc, but it has been tampered with at
this part, and the entrance cannot be traced.
Some 26 feet to the east of the hut circle is a
small cairn of stones, 9 feet in diameter and
1 foot in height. The hut circle and cairn are
covered with grass, while the surroundings
show a vigorous growth of heather.

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