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and huge boulders strewn over the fields.

New Luce "Ring Cairn" Miltonish (35S)
About 1/2 m. [mile] NNW. [North North West] of Miltonish, on a terrace
above the junction of the Pilwhirn Burn with the
Cross Water of Luce are the remains of a
circular cairn with a diameter of 29'. It is now
reduced to ground level and there is uncovered
in the centre a short cist lying with its longer
axis ENE. [East North East] and WSW. [West South West] and measuring interiorly
1'.10" in length, 1'.6" in breadth and 1'.6" in depth.
as far as exposed. (Note. There are no standing
stones as referred to in the Rev. [Reverend] George Wilsons notes
(see Antiquaries 1899 p. [page] 184) and it is possible his
informant referred to the sides of the cist as
the stones are said to have measured only 3' x 2'.

"White Cairn" (O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 13)
The 1" map gives this name in Old English
lettering but does not indicate the exact position
of the cairn. A green hillock at the E [East] end
of a spur of rock which projects into the flow
about 1 m. [mile] NW. [North west] of Miltonish is probably the object
meant or the site. There is no cairn now and
the hillock is a natural one.

Cairn Kenny. (12)
Within 1/4 m. [mile] of the N. [North] boundary of the
county, and 1/2 m [mile] S. by E. [South by East] of Ardnamoil and
at the NE. [North East] end of High Murdonochie just
where it descends to the flow is situated
Cairn Kenny. it is a circular cairn

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