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Another inscription at right angles to the foregoing
is imperfect owing to the stone having been broken.
Three other stones in an enclosed space com:
:memorate James Bennoch, Robert Edgar Robert
Mitchell and John Gibson all covenanting
martyrs. The stones & inscriptions are all
of late date. The latter are quoted by Mr.
Corrie.
It was after 6.0 before I returned this evening
having been on foot nearly the whole time since
10.0 in the morning.

5th June 1912.
Bicycled away by Auchencheyne and Loch Urr
to Dunscore Parish.

[Opposite page - sketch inserted]

Sandaywell Tower.
This has been a keep now entirely modernised
and used as a farm house. Inserted into
the front of the porch is a panel on which is
carved a shield bearing arms a saltire
on a chief three lozenges. Over the shield
are the initials IR - SW. and beneath it the
date 1651.

Fort Sandaywell.
On a slight elevated platau half way between
the farms of Sandaywell & Bogrie and washed
at its base on the N. [North] by a burn are the
remains of a fort. From the site the ground
rises by an easy inclination to the Westward
while in the opposte direction to Eastward

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