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attic, with two dormers on tlie South side giving access to 

 the parapet, completes the structure. A stone originally 

 placed in the North parapet, but subsequently removed to 

 Ewart by the direction of Lord Tankerville, bears the following 

 inscription :— T. G. MILES HVJVS STRVCTVRE SVPTVM 

 FECIT A.D. 1584. The members were at a disadvantage in 

 not being able to make a thorough investigation of the 

 building ; but through the kind forethought of Mr Butler they 

 were provided with an excellent drawing of it, which helped 

 to deepen the impression of its architectural excellence. 



Resuming their seats in the carriages, they continued the 

 drive through the beautiful grounds of Fenton, thrown open 

 to them through the kind favour of the Honourable F. W. 

 Lambton, to the Routin Linn, a picturesque glade on the 



borders of Ford Moss, through which flows the 

 Routin Broomridge Burn. Some time was spent in 



Linn. the vicinity of the pre-historic camp to the 



South of it, from which protrudes the huge 

 sandstone boulder, measuring 60 feet by 40, whose untrimmed 

 surface reveals the largest number and the greatest variety 

 of cryptic emblems inscribed on any of the sculptured stones 

 in the neighbourhood. Part of the rock has been quarried 

 away on the South side, leaving a short abrupt slope to the 

 South, and a longer slope to the North and West : but on 

 its ridges and hollows as well as its smoother surface at least 

 sixty figures have been traced. On the authority of the 

 late Mr George Tate, F.G.S., whose scholarly paper ought 

 to be consulted for further information on the subject, "these 

 are typical forms, comprising arched figures like a recessed 

 Gothic doorway, concentric circles with two and three grooves 

 issuing from them, horse-shoe forms and a singular figure 

 with nine radiating grooves from the top of the outer circle. 

 Some of the compound figures are peculiar, one describing 

 the form of a plant with its stem, branches, and floral head, 

 another having two circles a little apart, united by a groove 

 passing from centre to centre, reminding one of the curious 

 and unexplained spectacle-ornament on the Scottish sculptured 

 stones, and a third having two circles with long tails uniting 

 and ending in cups, which perchance might conventionally 



