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[Opposite page sketch inserted (Stone Circle, Lairdmannoch)] Scale 1" = 4'.

defence & turning in towards the burn on the low
ground.

18th Sept. 1911 .
Tongueland Par [Parish]
Lairdmannoch Cairn
On the top of a ridge at the N. [North] end of Laidmannoch
Loch is a large circular cairn measuring
some 66' in diameter and from 4' to 6'
in elevation. A concavity on the top indicates
an excavation but neither cist nor chamber is
exposed.

Stone Circle Lairdmannoch.
Some 80 yds. [yards] to the SE [South East] of the cairn on the summit
of a slight plateau about 12' in elevation above
the level of the loch and 30 yds [yards] distant from it
is a stone circle . The ten stones of which it
is composed are all almost entirely sunk beneath
the surface but it is discoverable by a large
granite block, irregularly foursided & pointed to
one end, measuring 5'.4" in length by 2'.3" in
breadth, now lying prostrate near the centre
but which evidently originally stood erect.
The diameter of the circle is very regular at 22'
and the distance from centre to centre of each
stone as far as ascertainable is on an average 6'.8".

Carved Stones Kirkconnel Farm
Above the window on the ground floor at the W. [West] end of the front of
Kirkconnel farm house is a
carved stone built into the wall bearing
between the initials W. G. a shield charged
with 3 boars' heads erased, the arms and

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