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a superior individual.

[Margin] Carsluith Castle

Carsluith Castle stands between the road & the shore
crowded round with farm buildings. It is a fine
example of mid-16th century architecture and merits
some attention at present denied to it. It belongs
to Colonel Hannay & through Lady Maxwell of Car:
:doness I have suggested the advisability of offering
it to the Office of Works. Above the doorway
is a carved panel within a frame bearing a shield
charged with a chevron between three fleur de lys
surrounded by a circular scroll carved with a
motto, now almost effaced but of which the letters
S DOM --S FO-- are still legible At the top
of the panel has been a date 156-

[Margin] Cross slab (fragment)

On the W. [West] jamb of the door which leads from
the farm Court to the W. [West] side of the Castle
is a fragment of an ancient grave slab of
red sandstone measuring 1'.3" by 1'.4" by 5"
whereon is carved a [small sketch of chalice inserted here] chalice and one
arm of a cross expanding outwards

[Margin] Caerclach Mote.

Kirkclaugh or Caerclach Mote is situated at
the edge of the cliffs some 6 1/2 ms. [miles] to the South
East of Creetown. The site is a remarkable
one on the crest of bold precipitous cliffs which
rise from 80' to 100' above the shoreline to sea:
:ward and on the Eastern flank, indented

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