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The guard stones are there to prevent the wheels of clumsily managed wagons from demolishing the gateway. To the right is a relief carved Brownlow Arms: Ermine three fountains proper on a chevron sable (Cust), quartering: Or an escutcheon between eight martlets sable (Brownlowe), inescutcheon Argent a hand gules (Ulster, denoting baronetcy). Surmounting the shield, an earls coronet. So these are the C18 Arms of Earl Brownlow. (Photo Jun 2014).