gb0551ms-36-17-24

Transcription

[Page] 24
[Continued from page 23]
his smithy in the neighbourhood where, filled
with water, it was used for cooling iron in.
From the smithy it was removed to its present
site. It is very possibly a font. Though the
interior has been carefully smoothed the shaping
of the exterior has been very rudely accomplished.

1st June 1910.

[Margin] Watten Par. [Parish]
Toddy Hillock
(19)

Bicycled westward to Watten parish
against a most unpleasant wind.
In a field some 300 yards SE. [South East] of Auckingill
Bridge is a low oval cairn lying with
its longest axis E and W [East and West] and measuring
some 22' x 17'. Its greatest elevation is only 1 1/2'
Being largely overgrown with turf little is
visible and it is probably only a remnant.
It bears the name of Toddy Hillock

[Margin] Oslie Cairn
(8)

Some 350 yds. [yards] S. by W. [south by West] of Lynegar House
and about 100 yds. [yards] N. [north] of the shore of Loch Watten
is a grass covered hillock the true
character of which is unrevealed.
On the summit just protruding through
the soil is the edge of a large slab lying
NNW. and SSE [North North West and South South East] measuring about 6'.5"
in length and 9" or 10" in thickness while
parallel to its ENE [East North East] face at either end
2' to 3' distant are two shorter slabs about
[Continued on page 25]