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This stone the minister told me bore an
inscription in Hebrew. It gave me much
satisfaction to demonstrate to him my
knowledge of the Hebrew script!

of the old church. The inscription reads
Anno dmi M CCCCC Orate pro anima
fratris. The slab which is a dark whinstone
measures 3'.9" by 3'.

[Margin] check wall rubbing.

The churchyard is well looked after, the
minister is interested in the old stones which it
contains and intends to make a register of them.

21st June 1911.
A dull morning. Train to Castle Kennedy thence
on bicycle to Craigcaffie. For the second time
I failed to get access to the castle owing to the
absence of the woman who keeps the key

Inch Par. [Parish] "Teroy"
About 3/4 m. [mile] due E. [East] of Craigcaffie farm
and situated to the E [East] of the Kirlachie
Burn which flows by in the bottom of a deep
glen [--] ft. [feet] below is a round outcrop of rock
measuring about 120' in length by 70' in breadth
on the N. [North] and highest extremity of which are
the foundations of a circular structure which
I believe to have been a broch. At the N. [North] end
the rock is protected by a deep
trench crossing the ridge from which the
rock rises, measuring some 26'in breadth
from crest to crest, 9' to 10' across the bottom
10' in depth from the top of the scarp and
3' - 4' below the counterscarp. Along the
W. [West] flank this trench gives place to a
terrace extending for 12' - 15' out from the

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