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Stone) left Galloway. It is a thin friable slab of whinstone 

 7 feet 2 inches long, and is now prostrate. 



3rd Group — Sculptured Stones. 



This group obviously presents more interesting features to the 

 antiquary, and in this half of Galloway did in the past contain 

 more numerous examples than any other. Some of these, how- 

 ever, have been lost, or, at anyrate, lost sight of. 



1. The fii'st example is in this category — The Penny Stane, on 

 Cambret Muir, Kirkmabreck. The " New Statistical Account " 

 says : — " This stone hath upon it the resemblance of that draught 

 which is commonly called ' the walls of Troy.' " M'Kenzie in 

 his " History " quotes this without comment. But the stone is 

 not now extant. 



2 and 3 were once close to the great cairn of Stroanfreggan^ in 

 Carsphairn. The " New Statistical Account " says they were 

 shaped "like human iigures." These, too, have vanished. 



4 and 5 (at High Auchenlarie) are two very interesting stones. 

 Formerly they stood at a height of 475 feet above sea level, on 

 the farm of High Auchenlarie, in Anwoth. One seems to have 

 been in connection with a stone circle there ; the other stood 

 some 200 yards or so to the west. About thirty years ago they 

 were both removed to the garden at Cardoness, where they may 

 still be seen. They are figured in pi. 122 of Stuart's great work 

 on " The Sculptured Stones of Scotland." The nature of their 

 incised sculpturing may be seen from the accompanying drawing. 

 (See pi. I., figs. 1 and 2.) They stood about five feet above 

 ground. 



6. We now come to an important and striking example. Its 

 present site is on the east rampart of Caerclach Mote, Anwoth. 

 It is a thin broad slab off tlie rocks on the near hills, and bears a 

 double sculpturing. On its upper face — exposed, we are sorry to 

 add, to all the wind of a stormy cliff, and to the rain droppings 

 from the firs so thickly planted here — is the elaborately carved 

 cross shown in pi. I., fig. 3 ; and on its under side a very archaic 

 cross, picked out with some sharp-pointed tool in the same 

 manner that the cup and ring marks are made. This stone 

 is shown also in Stuart's work, pi. 123, vol. I. 



7. At Holm of Daltallochan, the stone with the incised cross] 

 here shown (pi. II., fig 1) was found apparently, if report be true, 

 amongst the stones of a cairn. Along with another, also 



