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around it. The plateau had been under culti:
:vation and with its longest axis NNW. [North North West] and SSE. [South South East]
measures some 62ft. [feet] by 47 ft. [feet] From the East:
:ward a hollow approach leads upwards onto
the summit. The situation suggests a
genuine mote but the mound is singularly
low in height & there is no trench to compensate.
Over the mantleshelf above the kitchen fire-
-place in the Temperance Hotel at Sanquahar
[margin] (omit)
is a slab inscribed in incised lettering
RF: EC . 1708 . J.F.M.W.
O
On Sat. 10th May I left Dunfries & returned
to Edinburgh having finished my survey
work of the Ancient Monuments. On
Tuesday I indued Mr. J Graham Callander
with my mantle, and sent him forth
with the camera & satchel that I had
carried so far and so frequently as almost
to regard them as part of my clothing. At
one time my ambition was to have seen
with my own eyes everything worthy of notice
in Broad Scotland, but the fates have decreed
it otherwise and in a few weeks I shall
be ensconced in Dr. [Doctor] Joseph Anderson's chair
as Director of the National Museum of Antiquities.
Amen!