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Pieces of the stone have been broken off at eacb end, as if an 

 attempt had been made to square it at the ends for building. There 

 is nothing to^show whether this was done at the time the castle was 



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built or when the stone was removed to Prospect Farm. If the stone 

 was built into the wall of the castle at the time it was erected, it was 

 probably done with the idea that some virtue or power attached to the 

 stone on account of its ornament. 



The carving of this stone is later in treatment than the preceding 



