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20 June 1910.
A stormy day. Bicycled west to Banniskirk.

[Margin] Church Site.
(70).

To the S.E. [South East] of the farm buildings at Banniskirk
close to the old hill road & to the W. [West] of it is a
slight elevation said to mark the site of the
church. No building is visible. The
old road over the hills to this place from Dunn
is quite unfit for bicycling & we had to walk
most of the way. By a road but little better
we made our way to Achelone &sought out
Gunn, Colonel Murray Threipland's ground
officer who showed me where he had located
a ring of large stones.

[Margin] Cairn Achanarras Hill
(unnoted).

On the N. [North] end of Achanarras Hill about 1/2 m [mile]
NNW. [North North West] of Achanarras Farm is a low heather clad
mound which is probably a cairn. It measures
in diameter some 33' from N to S. [North to South] by 30' from
E to W [East to West] and in elevation 2' to 3'.

[Margin] Stone circle
Achanarras Hill
(unnoted)

On the N. [North] end of Achanarras Hill a little more
than half a mile NW [North West] of Achanarras Farm
house are the remains of a stone circle
surrounding a low stony mound with a dia [diameter] of some 60' & elevation ^ [caret mark]

[Margin] ^ [caret mark] just exceeding
2' are
five large blocks each around 6' in length
varying from 2'. 9" to 4'. 6" in breadth by
about 1' in thickness, each slightly tapering
to one end. They are all prostrate and
as all lie with their longest axes along the
line of the circumference presumably they
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