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KIRKPATRICK-] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [- JUXTA.

commanding a distant prospect over Upper
Annandale. It appears to be to some extent an
artificial mound of earth and small stones, as far
as its composition is ascertainable from surface
breaks; but as the ground around rises towards
it, it has doubtless a natural eminence as
its core. In form it is oblong, lying with its
main axis east by north and west by south,
and rises to a height of 16 feet at either end,

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FIG. 94. - "Camp," Garpol Water (No. 396).

measuring over its level summit some 40 feet
by 35 feet, with a projection to the west
at a slightly lower level for some 24 feet.
Extending past both ends at base, but not
carried along the sides farther than, on the
east side, the length of the projecting spur,
is a trench, some 30 feet in width, very shallow
at the west end and some 6 feet in depth at
the east. On the flanks, where there is no
trench, there are indications of dry stone work,
which continue round on the crest of the outer
bank of the trench. There is a slight parapet
on the edge of the summit at the east end.
xvi. S.E. 27 September 1912.

396. "Camp," Garpol Water. - On the low
haugh-land by the left bank of the Garpol
Water, close by the footbridge on the road
from Egypt to Holmshaw, and about 1 1/2 miles
directly north-west of Beattock, are the remains
of a rectangular enclosure (fig. 94), to which
a Roman origin has been attributed. Except
for its rectangular oblong form, there seem
no grounds for such an assumption: the site
is overlooked in all directions, commands no
prospect, and has an elevation above the
summer level of the Garpol Water varying
from 8 feet at the north-west to about 4 feet
at the lower end.
The enceinte is oblong, with the angles very
slightly rounded, lying with its main axis
north-west and south-east, and has, when
complete, measured some 277 feet by 172 feet,
the south angle having apparently been
entirely washed away by the stream. It has
been surrounded by a stony rampart, some
3 feet high on the interior, with a trench in
front, not now continuously recognisable in

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