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The red cattle grid at Hawkhall recalls those at Mountblairy, which is owned by the same proprietor as Frendraught. See Image

An access to Hawkhall paddock.

To Frendraught House and estate offices, from near Hawkhall.

By entrance to Hillhead of Frendraught, off a minor road.

Near Hawkhall.

The inscription on the right-hand panel reads, "The Merits and Character of Colonel Shand may be sufficiently traced in the History of his Life. Entering into the world destitute of Friends, of Fortune and of Influence, he quitted it rich in the possession of them all. His Perception was clear, his Judgment sound, his Informations extensive, his Courage calm and his Integrity spotless. The Toils of his early Years and the Perils that marked the Meridian of his Life were rewarded at its Close by an honourable Competence and the Recollection of a Life devoted to his King and his Country. In his Death he has bequeathed this useful Lesson to Posterity, that the most formidable Obstacles disappear before Vigour and Perseverance; and that, in this Land of genuine Freedom, the highest Stations are equally accessible to Talents and to Virtue as to Riches and high Descent." See also Image The monument is a Category B Listed building.

On the left-hand of these two panels is an inscription reading, "To the memory of Alexander Shand, second son of George Shand and Agnes Littlejohn in Parkdargie, Colonel of the Royal Field Artillery, who died on the 7th of April 1803 aged 72 years. " The right-hand panel reads, "Colonel Alexander Shand, to whom this Pyramid is erected, was a striking Instance of the Efficacy of strong natural Powers and vigorous Perseverance. His Parents soon learned to appreciate his Genius and bestowed upon him so liberal an Education that, during several of the early Years of his Life, he was enabled to act as Instructor of Youth. The natural Bias of his Mind, however, speedily became too powerfulto permit him to rest in the Obscurity to which Circumstances seemed to have consigned him, and some time previous to the Year 1760 he entered as a Private in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Soon thereafter he became a non-commissioned Officer, and was promoted by His Majesty to the rank of Lieutenant Fireworker, in which capacity he gallantly distinguished himself in several Actions in Germany, and received a severe Gun-shot Wound in the Foot at the Battle of Corbach on the 1pth of July 1760. he was also wounded and Brandywine River in America on the 11th of September 1777. His Services at Gibraltar were held in high Estimation during the memorable Siege of that Fortress in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, under the Command of the Right Hon Lord Heathfield, whose Confidence and Regard he enjoyed in an eminent Degree and having thus during a long Course of Years signalised himself in the Service of his Country and attained the Rank of Colonel, this gallant Soldier died on his Estate of Templeland and was buried in the Churchyard of this Parish." See also Image The monument is a Category B Listed building.

Looking downstream from the bridge at the entrance to Frendraught House.