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31st May 1912.
Off on bicycles at 10.0' correspondence and
a puncture having delayed our start.

Woodlea.
Here set up in the rock garden is a whin:
:stone slab brought from Auchencheyne
whereon is incised a plain Latin Cross,
the side arms of which slightly expand
outwards and which has an an encircled
boss in the centre. The shaft has no horizon:
:tal groove to close it at the foot in this
respect resembling one of the crosses at
Laggangam. There is an 18th century in:
:scription at the base of the stone indicating
that it has been used as a boundary mark.
It is fully described and illustrated in the
current vol. [volume] of the Antiquaries Proceedings

Craes Hill Small Cairn.
On a Western spur of Craes Hill at an
elevation of some 950' over sea level and
about 1/2 m. [mile] N. [North] by W. [West] of Lochur farm house
in a slight hollow to the S. [South] of a prominent
outcropping rock lie seven small cairns.
marked "tumuli" on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] map. With
one exception which is situated towards
the E [East] side of the group they are larger than
the usual cairns of this class: two oval
in form measure 15' by 12', 16' by 12', and
a third of the same form but disturbed to some extent
26' by 19'. An oblong one measures 20' by 12'

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