Carving and inscription above the Filling Station
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Carving and inscription above the Filling Station
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 22 Mar 2017
On the wall of the Filling Station Image is a thistle above a carving of a wolf and an inscription that reads: Here in Auld days The Wolf roam'd In a hole of the rock In ambush lay. It is possibly connected with a local legend that a howling wolf saved the town from a band of marauding Vikings.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.116511
Longitude
-3.937175