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smaller streams, Bardristane, Auchinlarie, and Laggan, contribute 
their share to the features of the hillsides in the midst. 
You will see from the map that the Archeological interest 
of this area is almost confined, concentrated as it were, to 
the South-middle portion of it. Here, indeed, we find no less 
than ten separate localities interesting in themselves, and full of 
value and use to us as clues, possibly, to the solution of those 
mysterious symbols, “Cup and Ringmarks.” Just outside of 
this smaller area, and to the west of Kirkdale Burn, we find still 
another, and as far as tradition goes, a specially interesting relic 
in Catrnholy, the cromlech supposed to mark the grave of the 
first King of Galloway. While about one mile to the North of 
Cairn Harrow summit, near the Cauldside Burn, are the 7wmula 
and Stone Circle before described by me, and of which there is no 
breath of report or tradition whatsoever. 
Leaving for the present these two distant vestiges out of 
consideration, and beginning close on the very cliffs, we shall 
first notice Kirkclaugh Moat—a notable structure. From the 
beach of boulders at its base to its summit there are abundant 
proofs of the strength and guarded importance of this Moat. 
First, in the lengths of loose masonry lying, now all moss-grown 
and half hid in luxuriant wild flowers, in confusion, but still 
evidently once placed in a straight line from the sea landward in 
a N.E. direction for some five and thirty yards, then the wall 
takes a sharp turn E. for 22 yards. At this point, being some 
16 feet or so above high water mark, it is met by the remains of 
other walls at right angles, one on each side, from the natural 
cliff on the one side and the partly built mound of the Moat 
slope on the other. By this the trench proper is quite evident, 
and can be traced round to the east of the Moat for a long 
curve, interrupted once by one of the cross ramparts. 
The side of the Moat here is very rocky and very steep. Fol- 
lowing the trench we reach the cross rampart at A, which leads 
us on to the higher and broader one at B, and so to the Moat 
summit The large irregular flat space on the N. and W. of the 
Moat proper is evidentiy artificial, and may correspond in a sense 
to the Case-court of an English Moat. The dimensions of the 
Moat are ninety feet by sixty—the longest facet, that running 
N. and S., being 48 feet. Its slopes measure 36 feet down to the 
trenches, but on the seaward side this is much steeper and deeper, 
