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[Opposite page photograph inserted] Fleet Bay .

with a slight hollow some 3'.6" wide on its inner
side containing a circular area
with a diameter of 37'. The roadway has
destroyed any defences that may have been
erected on that side but at the base of the
mound in the opposite direction there is a
short segment of a trench some 18' in width
and 5' in depth below the counterscarp.
It was 6.45 before I finished my examination of
this mote and I had nearly 20 miles to ride back
to mine inn. I said good day to my assistant
so that he might take his time, covered the distance
to Gatehouse in about half an hour, stopped there
5 mins [minutes] & swallowed a jug full of milk and
did my remaining 12 miles to Creetown
in 65 mins. [minutes] getting home for dinner at 8.25

15th May 1912.

Under a wooden shelter to the W. [West] of the
garden at Cardoness House are preserved
two cup marked stones. The smaller of the
two brought from the farm of Laggan
some years ago where it was found on "a stony
thorny, whin grown slope near the base of
Laggan Hill almost exactly 660' WNW. [West North West] of
the standing stones of Newton" It is a
block of whinstone pointed to one end whereon
are sculptured three cup marks, two surrounded

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