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of the neighbourhood of all sizes. There is no
outcrop of such stones anywhere adjacent.
In a map prepared by Mathew Stobie in 1794
for the Duke of Roxburgh the monument is called
the “Milton full of Stones”. I was informed by
J. Edington at Spottiswoode that excavation was
done here by Lady John Scott, & Lord Rosehill (afterwards
Lord Southesk) between 1866 and 1870. A trench
was dug across near the centre (probably that re:
:ferred to above) but nothing was found. There
does not seem to have been any thorough ex:
:cavation of the East end. An ancient
track known as the “herring road” crosses Byre:
:cleugh a little West of “White well heads” passing
in a S.W. [South West] direction towards Lauderdale. I
returned in the trap to Dye Cottage, a deserted
shooting lodge belonging to Col. [Colonel] Brown & thence
walked along the Dye skirting the edge of the
moorland & through the birkenshaws beautified
with the tints of autumn on leaf & bracken to
Longformacus where I joined the dogcart &
drove back to Duns getting in about 6.15.

9th Oct. 1908
Left Duns at 10.0 on bicycle for Cranshaws.
The roads rather muddy with the rain of
last night. At Cranshaws (10 miles) I called
first on the Minister who took me to the modern
church where built into the wall inside above

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