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Auchenlarie Burn (.-astward, we come at a quarter of a mile or so 

 to the remains of a stone circle, of which only five stones 

 remain in the circle, the two others being, curiously enough, at 

 points almost equi-distant from the tallest circle stone — one 

 due north, 24 feet off; the other S.S.W., 27 feet off. There 

 was once one other — its exact position I cannot ascertain. It 

 was sculptured copiously with cup and ring marks, and was 

 removed to the garden of Cardoness many years ago. It is well 

 drawn in Simpson's book on Cup and Ring Marks, and bears a 

 strong " specific " resemblance to the Bardristane slab above 

 described. 



This stone circle has been 36 feet in diameter, and it is'worth 

 notice that its stones are placed at distances which are multiples of 

 its diameter — i.e., six ft-et between the two prostrate stont's. Near 

 the north are 12 feet between the next two, 18 between the next, 

 and 12 feet between the last two. The stones are none of them 

 very large, nor do any of them bear traces of any sculpturing of 

 tlie simplest sort. But, on the solid rock, about 51 feet S.W. of 

 the tallest stone — the nearest rock surface — I discovered cup and 

 ring marks. Much of tlie upper part of this slightly sloping 

 rock surface was exposed to the weatlier, hence tlie actual 

 sculpturings are not anything like so clear as in my drawing, 

 but they are undoubtedly artificial, as are those lower down on 

 the rock, which were turfed over. 



Equidistant from this stone-circle are two caii'ns, or rather 

 remains of cairns, one on the N.E., the otiier on the N.W., each 

 just eleven hundred yards away. The cairn on the N.E. is a 

 somewhat oval-shaped ring of large stones, littered with stones in 

 its enclosure as well as about its circumference. It measures 40 

 feet by 26 feet, and its longer axis points N.W., Cairn Harrow 

 summit filling in the distant view. Its situation is peculiar, 

 being on a flattish ridge between two stee]) liill side.s, and the 

 ground at either end of it sloping rapidly away — a sort of 

 naturally suggestive position for a monument or burial mound. 

 The distance between the two cairns is a mile and a furlong. 



Proceeding from this cairn on Laggan, we reach, at half a 

 mile nearly due south, the Laggan Stone — the most interesting 

 and important of all under the present examination. For here 

 we find a heavy, substantial, roughly pentagonal slab elaborately 

 carved with cups and rings, and placed on the top of a low cairn 



