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Rude stone monuments in all countries : their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 267

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was published in 1807, and four arerepresented as standing in a series of etchings made by the Duchess-Countessof Sutherland from her own drawings, in1805. If the elbow in the bridge shownin the drawing in the frontispiece is nota licence permitted to himself by theartist, my drawing is earlier… … in diameter is a ditch 50 feet wide, making the whole diameter ofthe monument to the outward edge of the surrounding mound about 240 feet. Not far ~^- -^— from this circle, and close to the bridge ofBrogar, stands a singlemonolith 18 feet inheight, which is thefinest and higheststone of the…

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