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the loch on the E. [East] while to Westward it is rough
and broken. The fort has been formed on this
strongly defensible site by the erection of a dry
-stone wall composed of angular fragments of stone built along the top of the outer ridges where they did not present a vertical or unscalable face and
across their ends. Being covered with
low-growing oaks, long heather, and
ferns the making of accurate measurements
was almost impossible but the breadth across
the W. [West] end seems to be about 145' and the length
along the N. [North] ridge of rock about 215'. Mr.
F.R. Coles who surveyed the site in 1892 gives
the dimensions from E [East] to W. [West] between the
two longest ridges as 228' and the width over
all from N [North] to S [South] 240'. The wall is very much
ruined.

Fort Balgerran (5)
Situated in a field about 1/4 m. [mile] ENE. [East North East] of
Balgerran farm are the remains of an
elliptical fort. Towards the W. [West] and S. [South] the
ground is fairly level but from the edge of
the fort on the NE. [North East] it falls with a steepish
gradient for some 20' to rough boggy land.
A single mound with an elevation of about
1 1/2' above the interior and with a scarp some
4' to 5' in height constitutes the only defence.
Towards the ENE. [East North East] it has a breadth on base
of 30' and as it passes towards the W [West] it gradually

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