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which at times courses down the hollow, has deepened
it in places. The hollow is from 15 to 18 ft. [feet] across
at the top of the banks and from 3 to 4 at bottom.

[Margin] see as to position of fence on 6” map

To the W. [West] of the crossing and westward of the fence
which runs North from the edge of the cultivated
land there is a double mound on the So. [South] side
divided by a narrow ditch about 3 ft. [feet] across. Both
[Sketch inserted here] the mounds are low, the lower about 2 ft. [feet] above
the bottom of the hollow and the upper a foot or
two higher. The Breadth of both over all at base
about 16 ft. [feet]. [Sketch inserted here] In places the track
is 12 to 14 ft. [feet] below the banks on either side. Its
average breadth is about 12 ft. [feet]. When it
reaches a deep natural glen down which
flows the (?) Snaw burn it disappears.

Blackcastle Rings
[Opposite page - text inserted] A short distance from the N. [North] end edge of the Rampart a
track is visible leading down a slope towards
the water near the junction of the Blackadder
& Fangrist burn.

A short distance below the junction of the
Fangrist burn and the Blackadder on the top
of a scaur which bounds the East side of the
valley is the fort known as the Blackcastle
rings. It is an imposing structure in good
preservation with defences consisting of a rampart
6 ft. [feet] high to the inside 14 ft. [feet] from bottom of ditch on
outside – a ditch 34 ft. [feet] across from crest to crest
a level area 35 ft [feet] broad, a second rampart 3 ft. [feet]
high on inner side & 6 ft. [feet] from bottom of ditch on
outside – a ditch 28 ft. [feet] from crest to crest, and
a low mound on the top of the counterscarp. The

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