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smaller stones have been used to built the wall to the
required elevation. The width at the back of the
chamber is 3'.7", at 7', it is 3'.6", at 11'.8" it is 2'.8"
whence it gradually contracts until at 18' it is only 1'.6".
Beyond this point one stone remains on the E [East] side
only all opposite having been removed.
There are no divisional stones in the chamber nor
portal stones and the passage appears to have
been formed by a gradual contraction.

18th July 1911.
Ascended Cairnsmore of Fleet in
showery weather & was fortunate in getting up
without being enveloped in cloud. Just as
we reached the top down it came and
just when I had made up my mind to steir
by the compass for the cairn on the South
end it rose again. Major McHarrie ac:
:companied me up to "the Beacon" and
entertained me so hospitably to tea on my
return that I was too late for the train &
had to bicycle home in the wet! He tells
me goldfinches are now fairly common near
Bardrochwood.

Minnigaff Par. [Parish] Bargaly or Bardrochwood Mote.
Situated in a low-lying meadow on the W. [West] side
of the road from Palnure to Bar:
:galy and about 100 yds. [yards] beyond Bardrochwood
is a long narrow gravel ridge rising to a

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