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the openings through the rings all face in the direction
of the slope of the surface. The rock has been
much scoriated by the plough and harrow.
We visited the remains of the chambered cairns
on Cairn holy also three other cup marked rocks,
all referred to later, and before I got back to
my hotel at Newton Stewart it was half past eight.

10th May 1912.

Riding back to Creetown this morning I
saw the first hawthorn in blossom this
year. We have had the finest April on
record and all vegetation is far advanced.

[Margin] Cairnholy

Situated on a slight rocky hillock some 60 yds. [yards]
to the Southward of the farm of Cairnholy are
the remains of a chambered cairn consisting
of two tall portal stones, the only survivors of the
frontal arc, the passage to the chamber, and
the chamber itself with the roofing slab
still upon it. The cairn appears to have been
a round one measuring from back to front
along the line of the chamber some 62' but
the stones have been entirely removed with the
exception of a fringe here and there. Facing
Eastward (see plan) stand two high squarish
pillars, some 6" to 10" apart at base, that on the
right standing 8'.2" above ground, that on the
left 4'.2". forming the portals to the passage

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