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It is a large natural gravel mound probably
containing ½ acre on its surface. Around it
though greatly destroyed are remains of a rather
V shaped ditch with a very sharp, clean cut
counterscarp. On the top I thought I could
recognise the foundation beneath the turf of
an oblong building such as might have been
a 14th. 15th century castle, and the size of the
masonry on adjacent buildings, suggested that
something of the sort may have stood here ori:
:ginally. I do not think the site is a pre:
:historic one. Sandy left on
Tuesday for home as he & his friend Maloney
are going on Saturday to spend a fortnight
in a tent at Weens. Yesterday afternoon
we bicycled to Tulloch where we left our bicycles,
& then taking our tea with us we wander through
the birchwoods towards the hills by roads
leading to remote little farms. The children
were delighted with the stags' horn moss and
Cranberries (or the berry which does substitute for
it here) which they gathered. We had a delightful
ramble through beautiful woods mounting upwards,
carpeted with heather & blaeberries through
which protruded masses of grey lichen-covered
rock. We eventually struck a road across a

moor from a croft called Tynamer which brought us
back to the road that passes round Tor Hill
near Straanruie, ¾ mile to the East of Aundorach
where we had left our bicycles. There is an
old road which leads across the moor and through
the Southern end of the wood between Chapelton
and Lynamer.

Cairns
Within the wood, adjacent to the
Road, and on the wooded moorlands to the East
of it, is a considerable group of cairns, which I
do not see marked on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] map to which
I have access here. The cairns are of rather
larger size and are built with bigger stones
than those I have been accustomed to find
in groups, I estimate the diameter at about
15-18 feet . - A cairn crowns the summit
of the Blue Rock, a notable view point in the
wood, a few hundred yards to the South of
Revack Lodge, and a considerable group of
cairns of small size extends along the upper
edge of the haughs of Cromdale, to the South East
I think, of the Distillery, None of these are noted.
Christian has been staying with us on a visit
for 3 weeks.

17 Dec. 1916
Since my previous entry, in the battle of the
Somme we have made farther progress, but
of late, owing probably, to the state of the
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