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sculptured, it was laid ap 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 by 12 inches, and is 5 inches wide 
at the base. 
8. At Auchenshinnoch, Dalry, is the stone with rudely-incised 
cross shown in pl. II., 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 & FLORANCE HOWATSON BOGHT & PAYED this 
ground, year 1734—is much more modern of course than the 
eross, which is very like the Garryhorn one. 
9. At the lodge of Dalshangan, Carsphairn, may now be seen 
a stone bearing the cross in relief shown in pl. IL, 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 The Cummnock 
Knowes. Ata point there, at anyrate, 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 stone 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-howse* of Minnigaff was demolished, the workmen 
brought to light, 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 
pl. III.) It was after some time removed to its present resting- 
* The site is now marked by a large whinstone slab, on the top of which there 
is scratched an archaic sun-dial, 1 
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