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sculptured, it was laid up against a dyke — this was some fifty 

 years ago — and though this happened to be preserved, the other 

 was used as the cover stone of a pen. This stone is now set up 

 close to the farm house of Garryhorn, where it was placed many 

 years ago by the present tenant (Mr Somerville's) father. The 

 cross measures 2 feet 6 inches b} 12 inches, and is 5 inches wide 

 at the base. 



8. At Auchensliinnoch, Dairy, is the stone with rudely-iucLsed 

 cross shown in pi. IT., fig. 2. Mr Bruce, late of Slogarie, tells 

 me it was recently removed to near the dwelling-house from a 

 former station 200 or 300 yards away on the top of a knowe to 

 the east, and near an old road. The inscription, which reads — 



DAVID MACMILLAN & FLOKANCE UOWATSON BOGHT & PAYED this 



ground, year 1734 — is much more modern of course than the 

 cross, which is very like the Garryhorn one. 



9. At the lodge of Dalshangan, Carsphairn, may now be seen 

 a stoue bearing the cross in relief shown in pi. TL, fig. 3. The 

 history of this fine specimen is not without an interest of its own. 

 It is believed, on fairly good authority, to have once stood on a 

 heather-clad spot near Carsphairn village, called Tlie Cumnock 

 Knoives. At a point there, at auyrate, the Ordnance Map shows 

 a Standing Stone ; and in searching for its probable site, with 

 the utmost care and bearing by compass, Mr Bruce and I found 

 a somewhat suspicious looking mound. However this may be, 

 the stone was really removed from some wild spot, and deposited 

 where it now is by Dr Alexander Trotter, the proprietor of 

 Dalshangan. The stoue is a thick squarish block of porphyry, 

 2 feet high. The arms of the cross, which project in pretty high 

 relief, measure 5 inches each, and at their junction is a small 

 circular hole. 



10. In the precincts of the ruined old Church of Minnigaff 

 there now stands a richly-carved stone, which by reason of its 

 history no less than its carvings, is probably unique among our 

 stones. Some fifteen years ago, when the house known as The 

 Old Market-ltouse* of Minnigafi" was demolished, the workmen 

 brought to liglit, while loosening one of the windows, a stone 

 which was serving as a lintel, and that stone bears on its three 

 sculptured sides certain remarkable designs and effigies. (See 

 pi. III.) It was after some time removed to its present resting- 



* The site is now marked by a large whinstDne slab, on the tdp of which there 

 is scratched an archaic sun-dial. 



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