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2nd Group — Unsculptured Slabs. 



1. At Dalarran Holm — A conspicuous object on the left as 

 the visitor drives from tlie Royal Burgh of New-Galloway to 

 Dairy. Its position is 150 feet above sea level. It is a natural 

 slab, rudely four-squai-e, and was probably brought from the 

 Mulloch hill, where the rock splits up into this form of long, 

 narrow slabs. It is 8 feet above ground, and its sides are about 

 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches wide. It is supposed to commemorate a 

 battle between Danes and Scots. 



2, 3, and 4 are all on the farm of Red Castle, in Urr j^arish. 

 Chalmers, in " Caledonia," says the tallest was "rising 14 feet 

 from the ground ; " but unless some very extraordinary changes 

 in the surface have occurred, that must be a misstatement, 

 since, although this stone is the tallest I have measured in the 

 Stewartry, it is only 9 feet high. Two of its sides are 2 feet 

 6 inches wide, and the others 2 feet 3 inches. It is granite, and 

 on the east side there is a deep natural fissure so remarkably 

 like an incised cross as to be deceptive at the distance of a few 

 yards. This stone is not in view of the other two, one of which 

 is in viev/ of the celebrated Mote of Urr. They are compara- 

 tively .small, being but some five feet high. 



5. This is a set of four long, narrow, squarish slabs, known in 

 Anwoth as the Standing Stones of Newton, and really the grave- 

 posts of a huge prehistoric interment, which, I think, has never 

 been opened. 



6. Standing Stone of Bagbie — In the parish of Kirkmabreck, 

 adjoining the last. It is 500 feet above sea level, and stands in 

 a bare, lonely field a little way south of the old Kirkyard of 



Kirkmabreck. It is five feet high, and in thickness 3 feet 4 inches 

 by 10 inches. There are traces of other stones, some prostrate, 

 within a few dozen yards, which lead one to surmise this may 

 have been once a stone circle. 



7 and 8. On Dranandoio Moor, Minnigaff. I have not seen 

 these stones, but in Mackenzie's " History of Galloway " they are 

 stated to be about 8 feet high, and were supposed to mark the place 

 of execution of assassins who killed Randolph (Regent of David 

 Bruce) in 1330. The stones are popularly called The T'hieves. 



9. On the farm of Standing Stone, Borgue. When I saw it, it 

 was not in its original site, having falleii when the late Mrs 

 Gordon of Conchieton (who was proprietrix also of Standing 



