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:cluded nook sheltered by fringing rocks lie the
remains of the chapel. They are as described (notes p. [page] 6.)
showing a building apparently with a chancel narrow:
:er than the nave. In the recess at the W. [West] end the
masonry of rubble is exposed to a height of about 3 ft. [feet].
The neck of the promontory is traversed by a deep ditch
having on the west of the scarp the remains
of a thick mortar built wall.

21st. Augt.
Not so well. Have had to summon a doctor who considers
I am suffering from a slight attack of ptomaine pois:
:oning. I suspect my breakfast at Reston on Monday.

22nd. Augt.
Incapable of doing anything.

23rd. Sunday
Better but still suffering from Nausea.

24th. Augt.
Forts on Dowlaw road.
Feeling a little better but still weak. Hired a trap after
lunch for Fast Castle & took the two forts
(Co’path [Cockburnspath] 5 & 6) en route. No. 5. Shows the very partial
remains of a large fort much reduced by
ploughing. Only a portion of the defences at the
S.E [South East] is visible. They have apparently consisted
of a single rampart of earth & stone, and a
ditch. From counterscarp to crest of rampart
the measurement is about 20 ft. [feet] and the base of the
rampart measures about 18 ft. [feet]. The rampart is
curved and is about 2 ft. [feet] high at most. There
are faint traces of its continuance in the field
to the North but the outline is indefinite.
There appears to have been an entrance at the South.
No. 6. on the Dowlaw Road is a small oval
fort occupying the seaward termination of a

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