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[Opposite page photograph inserted] Stone Circle - Glenquicken Moor.
[Opposite page photograph inserted] Cist - Larg Moor .
[Opposite page photograph inserted] Stone Circle - Claughreid.

laid in a heap at the base of the central boulder.
(Plan & photos.) (Cole's plan in Antiquaries is
not correct.)
There is no trace of the second circle marked
on the 1" map as adjacent to the above.
In Harper's Rambles mention is made of a
Roman Encampment on Glenquicken. This is
an ancient field enclosed with a turf bank
to the SW. [South West] about 1/2 m. [mile] of the Stone circle. The
position it occupies does not in the least suggest
a defensive work.

11th May 1912.

Moved my base today fro the uncomfortable
Crown at Newton Stewart to the Ellangowan
Hotel at Creetown which I find most comfortable
and clean. All day till 4.30 I have written
up notes and after tea walked through a de:
:lightful oak wood above Casencary to the
cairn & stone setting beyond Kirkmabreck as I
doubted the complete accuracy of my plan. It was
however very correct.

12 May 1912

Sunday. Passed most of the morning getting
off arrears of correspondence. At 2.0 by appoint:
:ment I visited Adam Birrell's Cottage. His
brother showed me a magnificent pair of red
deers' horns with part of the skull attached recovered with
other two pairs from the mud banks by their

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