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Above the level of the lowest terrace the slope of
the hillock does not lie in any direction at a
greater angle than 20º from the horizontal and
it is possible that with such a slight inclination
a series of palisaded terraces may have been
adopted to increase the defensibility of the mote.
That the hillock is a defensive site the trench
across the ridge on the W. [West] side seems to imply
and the absence of any spiral continuity
does away with the idea that the hillock
has merely a quiet retreat in the pleasaunce
of the college or earlier convent below.
(MacGibbon has made a plan of this from
which I must obtain certain data omitted
above.) A large square enclosure lying
to the N. [North] of the hillock and surrounded by a
high bank seems to belong to the monastic
buildings.
Lochside
In a wood to the S W. [South West] of the farm buildings
at Lochside about 1 m. [mile] to the N. W. [North West] of Maxwell:
:town is a circular hillock marked mote
on the O. S. [Ordnance Survey] maps. Its slopes upwards on all
sides at a comparatively easy gradient to a
height of 7' to 8' and shows no level plateau or
suggestion of levelling on its slight converse summit. Though its size
and shape would not preclude its having been
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