The tinkler-gypsies . ore, there is a similar cavewhich runs about 30 feet into the mountains,and at its broadest part will be about nine feetin width. Third. U[ion the eastern face of Cairnsmore,and to the left of the Mill Burn as you ascend,there is a substantially built cave. It is situatedabout 200 yards lower down the mountain thanthe Three Cairns —which, by the way, nownumber four—and a little further to the leftof the cairns as you ascend. It will be seenfrom the photograph (produced as an illustra-tion) of this cave that it has been carefully con-structed, and a large flat stone lying
The tinkler-gypsies . ore, there is a similar cavewhich runs about 30 feet into the mountains,and at its broadest part will be about nine feetin width. Third. U[ion the eastern face of Cairnsmore,and to the left of the Mill Burn as you ascend,there is a substantially built cave. It is situatedabout 200 yards lower down the mountain thanthe Three Cairns —which, by the way, nownumber four—and a little further to the leftof the cairns as you ascend. It will be seenfrom the photograph (produced as an illustra-tion) of this cave that it has been carefully con-structed, and a large flat stone lying at theentrance exactly fits as a door to obscure theopening, and when thus closed it is most diffi-cult, even for those who have visited it before,to find it. A large flat boulder forms the roof,and from its sloping position it would rather 78 The Tinkler- G i psies. ?seem as if the roof had fallen in, thus makingthe cave smaller than it had originally been, bat?even now there is room for three ordinary folks,. , Cave on Red Strand or four Marshalls, as, according to a story whichwill be related later on, they had the knack ofhuddling together as closely as herrings barrel. Billy s Cave-haunts. 79 Fourth. There is a second cave on Cairns-more, and this one goes under the name of MClaves Pantry. To find this cave one?requires to follow the march dyke betweenBargally and Bardrochwood till it joins TheDeils Dyke ; thereafter you follow TheDeils Dyke along the mountain side in asouth-easterly direction until a ridge is reached,and following, down the mountain for about 100yards, a course taken almost at rigrit angles to^ The Deils Dyke, a rocky face will be foundwherein is situated MClaves Pantry. It isa cave of natural formation amongst rocks ; it isabout three feet in width, and runs back forabout nme feet. To enter it, one requiresto stoop. There is a tradition to the effectthat this cave is named MClaves Pantry because it was the hiding-place in Coven
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