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Blackaddie Inscribed Stone
Built into the left wall of the passage leading from
the square of the steading at Blackaddie Farm to
the midden is a stone inscribed in black letters
of which I made a rubbing not yet fully deciphered.
A stone which I went to see at Drumbuie said
to bear an effigy of a man was probably a
fragment of an 18: cent. [century] tombstone and of no interest.

Fort Southmains Elioch
Situated on the haunch of the hill overlooking
South Mains farm and about 1/2 m. [mile] S. [South] by W. [West]
of it is a small entrenched earthwork In
outline it forms an oval lying with its main
axis almost N. [North] & S. [South] measuring over all some
190 ft. [feet] in length by 126 ft. [feet] in breadth. It is divided
into two distinct divisions at about 1/3 of its length
from the N. [North] end. The Southern division is a
truncated oval or horse shoe shape surrounded
by a trench some 34 ft. [feet] in breadth and 6 ft. [feet]
deep. except where carried across to form the
division & where it has a breadth of 20 ft. [feet] The
area thus enclosed measures 89 ft. [feet] in length
by 58 ft. [feet] in breadth. Around the periphery ex:
:cept towards the N. [North] facing the other enclosure
there us a parapet rampart. The interior
except for a space of some 30 ft. [feet] at the S. [South] end.
has been hollowed by excavation. The north
enclosure is faced on its S. [South] aspect against

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