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

eastern extremity of the plantation on the
southern side of the Gifford and Danskine road
and some 400 yards south-west of Townhead
farm, at an elevation of 600 feet above sea-
level, is an oval area enclosed within an earthen
rampart 10 feet broad at base and rising in
one place on the eastern arc, the most vulner-
able side, 2 feet above the inner level and
6 feet above the bottom of a ditch 8 feet wide
and 3 feet deep on the counterscarp. The
longer axis is from north to south, and along
this the enclosure measures 110 yards, while
from east to west the distance is 90 yards.
The socket-stone for a cross (No. 264) lies
within this enclosure.

xv. N.E. (unnoted). 17 May 1913.

EXCAVATED HOLLOWS.

261. Small Excavated Hollows, Harelaw.-
On both sides of the crest of the hill some
200 yards south-south-west of Harelaw Fort
(No. 254) and about 1300 feet above sea-level
are a number of small excavated hollows
varying from 6 inches to 2 feet in depth.
Though surrounded by heather, being above the
grass line here, attention is directed to most
of them by a growth of grass in the hollows.
They are not surrounded by a bank, and only
some of those placed on a slope show signs of
an entrance and that towards the lower side.
They occur singly and also in groups of two or
more. The single examples are from 8 to 10
feet in diameter and are circular ; one group
of two shows the larger hollow 10 feet in
diameter and 2 feet in depth with the smaller
depression 5 feet in diameter and 1 foot in
depth lying at a distance of 10 feet in front
of an entrance on the lower side of the former.
A third group on the crest of the ridge is
comprised of three excavations, two circular
and one curved, placed triangularly and almost
touching ; the largest circle is 10 feet in
diameter and 2 feet in depth, the smallest
5 feet in diameter and 6 inches in depth and
the curved excavations is 8 feet long by 6 feet
broad by 1 1/2 feet deep. There is another group
consisting of two curved hollows which measure
18 feet in length by 4 1/2 feet in breadth by 1 1/2
feet in depth, and 8 feet by 5 feet by 1 1/2 feet
respectively, the latter showing an entrance
from the lower side. These excavations are
within easy reach of a water supply, as the

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source of the Soon Hope Burn springs out of
a hollow in the hill less than 200 yards to the
south-east.
On the slope below and some 20 yards north-
east of the fort on Harelaw, at an elevation
of 1250 feet above sea-level, are two small
excavated hollows 3 feet apart. The larger,
which is circular, measures 10 feet in diameter,
and the smaller, which is oval, is 7 feet long by
5 feet broad. Both are about 1 foot in depth
at the centre and show no signs of having had
a surrounding wall or of an entrance.

xv. S.E. (unnoted). 16 May 1913.

262. Small Excavated Hollows, Kingside
Rig.-Some 400 yards south-east of the first
group, on the heathery crest of the Kingside
Rig on the opposite side of the upper end of
Soon Hope, which cuts into the hills here, and
about the same elevation, are a few more similar
excavated hollows on both sides of the boun-
dary between Yester and Garvald parishes.
One circular hollow measures 10 feet in dia-
meter and 1 1/2 in depth ; about 175 paces to the
north-east is an oval hollow 12 feet by 7 feet
by 2 feet with a circular hollow 5 feet in
diameter by 9 inches in depth lying 4 feet to
the north-east of it. Some 120 yards farther
on another circular depression with an atten-
dant small circle and an irregularly shaped
excavation is seen. No grass grows in this
series of hollows.

xix. N.E. (unnoted). 15 May 1913.

263. Small Excavated Hollows, Harehope
Hill.-On the heathery eastern shoulder of
Harehope Hill, about 400 yards south of "The
Castles" fort, overlooking the Blinkbonny Burn,
near the 800 feet contour line, is a small excav-
ated circular hollow, 9 feet in diameter, with the
soil thrown out on the lower side. There are
faint traces of other two similar excavations
in the vicinity.

xv. S.E. (unnoted). 9 July 1913.

MISCELLANEOUS.
264. Socket-Stone for Cross, Townhead of
Duncanlaw.-In the enclosure (No. 260), on a
rectangular mound 1 1/2 feet in height is a sand-
stone socket for a cross. The stone is rect-
angular and measures 4 feet in length, 3 feet
in breadth and 1 foot 7 inches in height.

xv. N.E. 17 May 1913.