wigtown-1912/02-005

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FOURTH REPORT
OF THE
ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ANCIENT AND
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

May If Please Your Majesty, --
We, your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an
Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Construc-
tions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture,
civilisation, and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the
earliest times to the year 1707, and to specify those which see most
worthy of preservation, humbly present to your Majesty this our
fourth Report.

During the summer and autumn of 1911, Mr A. O. Curle,
Secretary to the Commission, undertook a survey and examination of
the monuments and constructions in Galloway, which embraces the
County of Wigtown and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and it is
proposed to issue an Inventory thereof in two volumes. The first
volume is now completed, and contains an Inventory of the monu-
ments and constructions in the County of Wigtown, giving the
situation and characteristics of each monument, with its biblio-
graphy, a reference to the Ordnance Survey sheet (6-inch scale) on
which the object is noted, and the date on which it was visited.
The text is illustrated with numerous photographs and ground plans,
and there has been added a map on which the positions of the various
monuments and constructions, or groups thereof, are indicated by
numbers referable to the Inventory. An appendix to this Report
contains a list of those monuments in the said County which, in the
opinion of your Commissioners, seem most worthy of preservation.
As in former Reports, they have been divided into two classes, viz.:
(a) those which appear to be specially in need of protection, and (b)

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