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an inscription for the most part illegible
but which commences:-
Sad our of death reward of sin
Both good and bad drinketh therein
witnes Johne Johnstone herein under scripted
whose bones &c
Adjacent lies an early coped stone on
the flattened ridge of which are incised two
parallel lines but no sign of a cross appears
at the end of them.

Fort Douglas Farm
This fort lies about 1/4 mile to the South west
of Douglas Farm and is situated at the edge
of a bank which falls to a hollow on the
South and South West by an easy gradient
for some 30 feet. It is an oval entrench:
:ment lying with its longest axis North East
and South West, measuring interiorly 176
feet by 151 feet, and surrounded by a
flat bottomed trench some 28 feet wide
and 5 to 6 feet deep at greatest depth
with an earthen mound forming the
counterscarp. On the North East are the
remains of a parapet mound which else:
:where around the periphery has dis:
:appeared. Somewhat to the North of
the centre the interior area is crossed

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