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construction the rest of which has been removed.
As will be seen from the plan four of the
blocks appear to be on the arc of a circle
and this would be so although the __ stone has
been overturned. It is possible therefore
as in the case of the cairn on Cambret Moor
that here also a stone circle has been associ:
:ated with a cairn.
Returning as arranged to Adam Birrell's
house at Burnfoot we bicycled Eastward
past Carsluith to Kirkdale where leaving
the road we passed down a lovely glen where
the wild hyacinths grew in profusion, to a
remarkable natural eminence rising from
the shore and severed from the bank in rear
of it by a deep chasm through the rocks.
The top was small in area though it might
have served as a mote hill but nowhere
could I observe any trace of handiwork
in connection with it. A rough walk
over a boulder strewn beach and round a

[Margin] Dirk Hatteraick's Cave

rocky point brought us to a nook in the
high bank above the shore in which some 35'
up was visible a small aperture
which gave access to the cave believed to
be that immortalised by Scott in Guy Mannering

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