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Rusko House
Heraldic Stone
Built into the front of the porch of Rusko House
is a small square stone panel containing a
shield bearing arms. Quarterly 1st and 4th 3 boar's
heads erased 2nd & 3rd three crescents.
The boars' heads are arranged in a peculiar man:
:ner the proper term for which I do not know. The
stone which bears no date nor initials was found
recently built into the old house.

Polehue Mote
On the W. [West] or right bank of the Water of
Fleet about 1/4 m. [mile] ENE. [East North East] of Polehue farm house
and just where the river takes a sharp bend
to the E. [East] is situated a mote hill which has
been formed on the end of a high bank
rising some 35' above the margin of
the river. A short level space intervenes between
the foot of the bank and the river. The Mote
itself appears to have been constructed out of
a slight eminence by the excavation of a trench around
it on three sides, resting at either end on the
face of the bank, and by levelling the summit.
It is roughly rectangular with rounded corners the side along the
high bank of the NE [North East] measuring 69' and the other
three sides on the SE., SW. and NW. [South East, South West and North West] measuring
respectively 64', 60' and 66'. The natural rise
of the ground is from the E [East] and here the
depth of the ditch nearly the same below the

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