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giving access to the churchard is an old
font. It is a cylindrical block of sandstone
1'.8" in height and 1'.5 1/2" in diameter. The basin
is in shape an inverted cone 10" in depth and
5" in diameter at the top. A plain roll moulding
encircles it at the base and rising from this
to within 6" of the top of the font are five equidistant
similar vertical mouldings

Mound. Olrig Glebe. (10)
About 180 yds. [yards] SW. [South West] of the Manse of Olrig in the
cultivated land of the glebe is a stony mound
which probably contains a broch. The mound
is under cultivation and no sign of structure
is visible. The diameter over all is some 96'
and the elevation about 6'.

Cairn Netherside (12)
Some 200 yds [yards] S [South] by W. [West] of Hayfield farm beside
the steading of Netherside is a grassy hillock.
It measures some 70' in diameter and 5' in
elevation. About 50 years ago a stone
cist was accidentally discovered in it
and was immediately covered up again without
any observations being made.

Cairn (14)
At the edge of a grass park on the W. [West] side
of the road some 300 yds. [yards] N. [North] of Birkle Hill
quarry is a small cairn. It measures
some 38' in diameter and some 5'.6" in
elevation. It does not appear to have

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