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From the fort on the Carron Water we proceeded to Eliock
to visit certain small cairns of which I had a note. They
lay high up on a moor & before we left the road to mount
the fields it was raining heavily & blowing a gale but I
had not brought a car thus far to be turned again by rain &
wind so when we had eaten our lunch we set out. I
don't think in my five years' experience I have been out
on a worse day the rain when we had to face the wind
stung like pellets from a shot gun & very soon except
beneath the firmly buttoned upper part of my burbury
I was soaked. We had an uncomfortable drive home
but a hot tub afterwards warded off any ill effects.

Sanquhar Par [Parish] Deils Dyke
Running across the Eliock estate to the S. [South] of Sanquhar
is a low bank or dyke bearing the name of Celtic
or Deils' Dyke on the maps. Its general direction
is East to West from the Durisdeer
parish boundary above Eliock wood and
Ulzieside about
where it appears to have turned sharply to the N. [North] for about 1 3/4 m. [miles]. Thereafter
again assuming an E [East] to W [West] course it is lost by the edge of cul:
:tivated land near the Polwarloch Burn about 1/2 m [mile] E [East] of the Ayrshire border
1/2 m. [mile] East of the Euchan burn. Its course is
very irregular; it does not appear to select
defensive ground, and it follows the
Southern slope of the watershed at a distance of
a mile or thereby from the crest. On the whole it
is an inconspicuous turf bank but between the
Twenty shilling & Elliock burns a foundation of
somewhat large stones is exposed indicating a

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