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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| DRUIDICAL CIRCLE | 027 | [Continued from page 93] stones to be got in the surrounding district; there is some few of the same species but not one twentieth the size. it is not less remarKable the situation of this antiquity which is in a remote destrict on the side of a range of hills having a commanding prospect of the fertile and luxuriant vally of the Nith, also the hemisphere for which Dr [Doctor] Ingles asserts as being very convenient for taking astronomical observations which was the practice of the ancient Druids, they being the only persons possessing any learning those days. The stones form a circle the diameter of which is about 72 feet. on a small hillocK rising in the centre to the height of about 12 ft. [feet] bordered on the North. West. & South by a sort of natural fossee almost inperceptible. In the Statistical Acct [Account] they are called the 7 Gray stones. Dr [Doctor] Ingles mentions it to me as being merely a local term. for this reason; the lower class of the people not Knowing any other name to called them by. than merely the colour on account of being ignorant to what use they were appropriated. I have made the most particular enquiry. concerning the name 7 Gray stones but of the few intelligent people that knows any thing concerning this antiquity in the surrounding 5 or 6 Phs [Parishes] they generally term it a Druidical temple or circle |
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[page] 94List of Names collected by John E. Daveran RS&M [Royal Sappers & Miners] 1st Examiner
Parish of Lochrutton
Trace No 2
[signed] W Driscoll Gosset LtRE [Lieutenant Royal Engineers] Octr [October] 31. 1850
John E. [Daveran] Sept [September] 7th [1848?]
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