By an abandoned stretch of the A75, lies a rock named 'The Coffin Stone', supposedly after its resemblance to the shape of a coffin. Its name may derive from being a stopping point for funeral processions en route to Old Luce Parish Church a mile away.
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Calanais Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis.
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Drumtroddan Standing Stones in Galloway. One of the first sites to be donated into state care following the 1882 Ancient Monuments Act, by Herbert Maxwell. A stone fell a few years ago, leaving just a single one remaining.

Historic Environment Scotland have decided against restoring the fallen stone, declaring the money better spent elsewhere. This isn't state care, it is managed decline. What would Herbert Maxwell think now?

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Monreith House in the Machars of Galloway. Built in 1791 by William Maxwell and has remained the home of Maxwells since, until now. The house and the estate is currently listed for sale.
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Kirk Oswald, near Maybole in Ayrshire, named after Oswald of Northumbria. Amazing that this church contains the baptismal font of Robert the Bruce.
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A pair of small standing stones at the Wren's Egg, a glacial erratic boulder and aligned to the Midwinter Sunset, in the Machars of Galloway.
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Ruined house with the stones of Calanais on the horizon.
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