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Transcriber's notes

line 3 - assumed to be mis-spelt 'eminence', although the 'i' is either missing or the 'm' has been written as an 'n'

Transcription

[Page] 176
[continued from page 175]

[Opposite page photograph inserted] Kirkclaugh Cross p. [page] 167.
[Opposite page photograph inserted] Fleet Bay

[Margin] Cairn High Auchenlarie

On a high rough pasture field which at
some remote time has been under cultivation
on a slight eminence and about 1/2 m. [mile] NNW. [North North West]
of High Auchenlarie is a cairn some 2/3rds of which
have been removed but in which the interment
probably remains undisturbed. Its longest axis
lies NE [North East] to SW. [South West] and it has measured in diameter
72' by 80'. The greatest height is now about 10'.

[Margin] Rock Sculptures Cairnholy.

On the farm of Cairnholy are three examples
of rock sculpturing one on an outcrop of
rock and two on detached blocks.
The first occurs in a low lying meadow
about 1/3 m. [mile] to the NNW. [North North West] of the farm buildings
on a mass of rock adjacent to a dyke that
forms the W. [West] boundary of the field and
some 350 yds. [yards] ENE. [East North East] of the farm of Kirkmuir.
It consists of a few much worn cup & ring
marks on the upper surface of the rock.
In the same field near the central line
and about 100 yds. [yards] from the N. [North] end also 30
yds. [yards] N. [North] of a large heap of stones lies a
block of whinstone, rectangular in section
measuring 5'.3" in length by 2' in breadth
and 14" or thereby in depth on the upper surface
of which are a number of faint cup & ring
markings. This is just such a block as
might have been in a stone circle but there

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