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APPLEGARTH] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [APPLEGARTH.

clay immixed with stones, rising now at no
point more than 2 feet above the level of the
interior. This has been supplemented by a
trench arounfd the south extremity and along
the eastern flank, which has a width from
crest to crest of about 25 feet and lies some
8 feet down from the crest of the mound.
From north to south along the western side
the rampart follows the line of the summit,
but on the east and more assailable sides
it is carried along the flank some 8 to 10
feet below the highest level of the interior,
with a slight parallel depression in rear of it.
Into this lower level the entrance opens on the
east, with a width of some 10 feet, crossing
the trench and passing through the rampart,
whence a track is observable leading up to
the higher level.
This construction differs essentially from
any in the Langholm district, in that the
interior at all points is at a higher level
than the land outside, and that, except
perhaps in rear of the rampart, where there
may have been slight excavation, it shows
no hollowing out.
xxxiv. -- S.W. -- 23 July 1912.

10. Fort, Broomhill Bank Hill. - Situated on
the west side of the south end of the summit
of Broomhill Bank Hill, at an elevation of
more than 700 feet over sea-level, is a fort
commanding an extensive view of Annandale.
The ground rises very steeply to the level of
the fort from the east, but elsewhere from
below and towards the actual summit on the
north-east it mounts by easy gradients. The
enceinte, which is approximately circular,
measuring some 230 feet in diameter, is
surrounded, except above the east declivity,
by two concentric ramparts of earth and stone,
the inner 18 feet wide at base and the outer
22 feet, which are separated by a trench some
18 feet wide and 4 feet in depth. Some
70 feet beyond the outer rampart lies a third
of low elevation, 16 feet broad at base, which
runs concentrically from the north-east,
and, as it passes from south to south-west,
gradually converges with the intermediate
rampart, meeting it 106 feet from its termina-
tion on the south-west. At the termination
of the ramparts on the south-west, a hollow,
evidently the entrance, is observable passing

into the enceinte at its lowest part: beyond
it the outline of what has been a slighter
rampart is discernible for a few feet trending
along the east face.The interior surface
appears to be at its natural level and un-
excavated, as also is the space within the
outer and middle rampart, except towards
the point of contact, where it is hollowed to a
trench.

11. Fort, Broomhill Bank Hill. - Some 260
yards to the north-east of the last is another
fort on the summit of the hill, at an eleva-
tion of some 871 feet over sea-level, not
visible from its neighbour and commanding
a great prospect in all directions. The in-
clination from the direction of the last fort is
slight, but on the west and north the hill falls
sharply away. The enceinte is oval in form,
lying with its main axis north and south,
measures in diameter 190 feet by 170 feet, and
is surrounded by a slight parapet mound and a
trench partially cut through rock, at most soe
6 feet deep and 8 feet wide, with a mound
on the counterscarp varying in height as the
level beyond rises or falls. There are two
entrances, one on the east side of indefinite
width overlooking the steep slope to the base
of the hill, and the other on the west side, some
10 feet wide, from the direction of the other
fort. The interior, which has not been hol-
lowed, rises at the centre 5 to 6 feet above
the level of the entrances.
xxxiv. -- S.W. -- 23 July 1912.

12. Fort, Blindhillbush Hill. - This fort is
situated on the summit of Blindhillbush Hill,
at an elevation of 618 feet over sea-level, in an
impenetrable fir plantation. It is shown on
the O.S. map as oval, with its longest axis
north and south, measuring 215 feet by 160
feet. It is surrounded by a rampart of earth
and stone rising at most barely 3 feet above
the interior, and, in general, having a scarp to
the outside some 6 feet in height. At the
south-west a bank passes outward from the
scarp, with a slight divergence in a south-
easterly direction, but is soon lost in the
cultivated land beyond the wood.
xxxiv. -- S.W. -- 23 July 1912.

13. Mote, Applegarth. - The Mote of Apple-
garth rises on the termination of a steep bank,

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