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excavation has been made in it at the North
end the internment does not appear to have been
disturbed.
I sent Callander to visit & describe the
foregoing while I visited a cairn marked
on the opposite side of the valley.
The "tumulus" notes on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] map on
the summit of the hill acrossthe valley
to the W.S. [West South] West is now a low stony
mound with a diameter of some 8 ft. [feet]
and having a few large stones lying
on the surface.

Kirkmahoe
Small cairns & hut circles.
Glenmaid
On the west side of the long plantation
which to the Westward of Glenmaid
runs North and South along the edge
of the moorland at an elevation of some 800 ft. [feet] over sea level on a stretch of
moor sheltered by rising ground on
the North and West is a group of
small grass grown cairns low in
elevation and with an average diameter
of from 15ft. [feet] 16ft. [feet] Associated with them
are several circular stony hut founda:
:tions not at measurable. One of these
oval in form measures 13 ft. [feet] by 10 ft. [feet] 6 in [inches]
and was apparently entered from the
East; another towards the North end

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