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Auchenlarie Burn eastward, 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—1.e., six feet between the two prostrate stones. 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 
the 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 the upper part of this slightly sloping 
rock surface was exposed to the weather, hence the 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. 
Equi-distant from this stone-circle are two cairns, or rather 
remains of cairns, one on the N.E., the other 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 steep hill sides, and the 
a sort of 
ground at either end of it sloping rapidly away 
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 
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