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WHITTINGHAME.] -- INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN. -- [WHITTINGHAME.

inmost ends in a mound directly opposite the
entrance. For a distance of 90 feet from the
entrance the rampart overlaps itself on the
outer side. From this entrance, which passes
through all the defences and is 15 feet wide,
to the south-western entrance these three ram-
parts are continued with an additional but
smaller one between the inmost and the middle
ramparts, giving four ramparts on the most
assailable side facing the level from Priestlaw
Hill. On this smaller rampart about 110 feet
south of the north-west entrance are two im-
pinging hut circles. The south-western entrance,
with a width of about 18 feet, passes three of
the defences but does not pierce the inmost one.
From this entrance to the south-east corner the
three main ramparts only continue, until the
two outer tail off where they meet the crest of
the natural slope; the inmost one apparently
continuing its course round but being for about
a hundred feet now indiscernible. The en-
closure is studded with indications of hut
circles.

xvi. S.E. 28 September 1920.

ENCLOSURES.

220. Walled Enclosure, Kingside School.-
About 150 yards north-west of Kingside School
on the ridge between the Whitadder and the
Kell Burn, at an elevation of 850 feet above
sea-level, are the remains of a stone wall,
which encloses an area roughly oval in outline
with its longer axis running north and south
and measuring 108 yards in length by 83 yards
in breadth. Only traces of the wall are
seen at the north and south ends, but on the
edge of the steep declivity on the west, falling
some 40 feet to the haugh on the left bank of
the Kell Burn, which flows some 50 yards
distant, are the remains of a wall now 7 feet
broad at the base and rising 1 foot above the
inside level ; outside on the north are traces
of a ditch. The road from Gifford to Priest-
law cuts through the east side of the enclosure,
and there are indications of the wall having
been carried along the east side of the road
on the top of the slope overlooking the Whit-
adder. Signs of an entrance 20 feet wide are
seen at the north end, and opposite it, 20 feet
nearer the centre of the enclosure, are two
large stones 6 feet apart.

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The Setting of Small Stones (No. 244) is
placed near the centre of this enclosure.

xvi. S.E. (unnoted). 19 May 1913.

221. Circular Stone Walled Enclosure.-In a
small glen about 1/2 mile west of Kingside School
on the northern slope of Penshiel Hill, at an
elevation of about 850 feet above sea-level,
are the foundations of a stone wall 4 feet broad
enclosing an area 100 feet in diameter. To the
south-east, where the brae rises quickly, the wall
cannot be traced. A spring of water rises in
the centre of the enclosure. As it is commanded
by the hillside to the south and south-east, it
cannot have been a defensive enclosure, but
was probably a fold for animals.

xvi. S.E. (unnoted). 12 June 1913.

222. Small Excavated Hollow, Back Burn,
Johnscleugh.-About 600 yards north-east of
Johnscleugh, just over the top of the brae rising
from the south side of the Back Burn, at an ele-
vation of 1000 feet above sea-level, is a single
small excavated hollow, oval in shape, lying
north and south. It measures 16 feet in
length by 10 feet in breadth, and the earthen
bank round it, is 4 feet broad and 1 foot in
height. There is an entrance in the eastern
side.

xvi. N.E. (unnoted). 14 June 1913.

223. Small Excavated Hollow, Ling Rig,
Johnscleugh.-Some 500 yards east of Johns-
cleugh, at an elevation of 1000 feet above
sea-level, on the sloping summit of the Ling
Rig, which lies between the Back Burn and
the Writerspath Burn, is a group of small
excavated hollows, placed almost in a line,
running north-north-east and south-south-west,
the major axis of the hollows being across this
line. The first is oval in shape, 12 feet long,
8 feet broad and 1 foot 6 inches deep ; the
second 20 yards to the south-south-west is
circular and 9 feet in diameter, while it is
surrounded by a slight wall 3 or 4 inches in
height ; the third, 38 yards farther on in the
same direction, is of the same length and
breadth as the first but is less distinct ;
the fourth, 40 feet distant, showing a wall
3 feet broad and 4 to 6 inches high on the