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roadway. From the bottom of the glen, narrow at this
point the hills rise up with steep ice-planed
flanks for several hundred feet. In
the angle formed by the confluence of the
stream which flows down from the White Dod
and the Mennock Water is a plateau which
presents a steep scarp towards both streams.
Here to the E. [East] of a sheepfold lies the cross. It
is raised from 1' to 1 1/2' above the surrounding
level, and is a Latin cross measuring 52'
in extreme length, 34' from the foot to the crossing
and 47' across the arms with a general
breadth of about 11'. Where the surface on
the cross is broken it shows that it is
formed of the soil and fine gravel which
covers the rest of the plateau.
The head of the cross points 230º Mag. [Magnetic North].

Cairn. !Fort (Supposed) Bogs Burn
At the S. [South] base of Conrig Hill, on a shelf of the
hillside & just to the N. [North] of the meeting of two
rivulets that go to form the Bogs Burn is a
large sheepfold enclosing in its centre the
remains of an earlier construction. The
interior is covered with coarse grass and
rushes and it is difficult to determine the
true nature of the remains. A broad
encircling ring of stones is very apparent
and though the centre is hollowed to some

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