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displaced stones showing hollows on its surface
suggested the ruins of a double hut measuring
20' in length with a general average breadth
of 10'.
[Opposite page - photograph inserted]
On the moor about 1 m. [mile] N [North] by W. [West] of
Drumpail and close by a modern cairn is
a hut circle measuring interiorly 22' by 25',
seemingly entered from the SE. [South East] and formed
by a bank some 5' thick and now a few inches
in elevation having large stones placed in
the periphery at irregular intervals on
either face. Some 40' to the Westward is
a small cairn-like mound overgrown
with heather measuring from 10' to 12' in
diameter and 1 1/2' in height while some 60 yds. [yards]
to the S. [South] is another of similar appearance.
To the Southward some 60' of the hut circle
stretches in a sinuous line for 50 or 60 yds. [yards]
a stony mound ending abruptly, but with a
break as if an entrance through it.
13th June 1911.
Motored to Logan where Mr. McDowall had
kindly offered to put me up so that I might
conveniently explore the Mull of Galloway &c.
Old Luce Mote of Droughdool.
About 1/3 m. [mile] S. [South] of Dunragit railway station
at the landward edge of the links and sand-
-dunes which fringe the coast stands the
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