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is only some 7 inches, and the walls are thin One
basin shows a regularly formed lip, It's dif:
:ficult to say what these have been but it is
probable that they belonged to the garden of
a tower which once stood here (See notebook
for fuller details if required).

Gretna Par [Parish] Lochmaben Stone
Standing on a slightly rising ground
within ? 300 yards of the Solway and
from the farm buildings of Old Gretna
is a huge granite iceborne boulder
measuring 18 ft. [feet] 2 ins. [inches] in circumference
and 7 ft. [feet] 6 ins. [inches] in height At 76 ft. [feet] distant
to the NNE. [North North East] lies a second and much
smaller stone measuring only some
3 feet in height. Presumably these stones
are the remains of a stone circle of which
all the other stones have long since
disappeared. The larger boulder is
a historical relic of no inconsiderable
interest and full information regarding
it will be found in Dr. [Doctor] George Neilson's brochure
"The Lochmaben Stane" and Sir Herbert Maxwell's
History of Dumfries &c.

Gretna Green Churchyard
Some 80 feet to the South of the East end
of the Church lies a slab dated 1650
bearing Johnstone arms and

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