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by Cunningham to Torhousekie and had to
carry my bicycle on stepping stones across
the Bladnoch.

Standing stone
At the edge of a field to the W [West] of the farm
road about [--] yds. [yards] N. [North] of the farm of Cunningham
is a single pointed boulder set up on end about
3 1/2' in height and about the same in breadth
being oval in section. It is just such a stone
as those employed in the circle at Torhousekie.
At Torhousekie I took a photograph of the
three large stones in the interior of the circle.

Mochrum Park
I called at Mochrum Park & saw the Dunbae
Monument to the memory of the Bishop. It
is an interesting heraldic stone & I shall
get MacGibbon to make a drawing of it.

29th May 1911. Inch Par [Parish] Cairns (18)
Situated about 1/2 m. [mile] WNW. [West North West] of New Luce
station in one of highest of the cultivated fields
and about 200 yds [yards] S. [South] of the upper end of a
plantation are the remains of two cairns
situated within 50 yds. [yards] of each other and
both much delapidated. The most
Westerly of the two measures from 60' - 62' in
diameter and about 5' in elevation and
does not appear to have been excavated.
The other in which the interment has probably been
disturbed measures some 50' in diameter and

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