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FORT [Auld Hill] Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort
David Logan
John Fullarton Esq.
John Crawford
Samuel McGowan
010 This object stands on a finely [isolated] eminence called Auld Hill, and [is] evidently the appearance of a [fortified] place, Conjecture [assigns] this structure, with several [more] similarly constructed in [other] parts of the country, to the [era of] Danish incursions, Nothing [] however, can be obtained to [] result of what it has really [] more, than that it has at [one time] been a place fortified, but [by] whom, unknown.

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"Some traces of remote times still exist here. Along the steep banks facing the sea beach are placed a chain of little eminences called "Castle Hills" supposed to be the remains of a very primitive class of fortlets. In particular, they occur at Boydston, Glenfoot, Seamill, and Ardneil. They are all constructed in the same manner, and are of very limited dimensions. A portion of the bank is detached on all sides and rounded conically; the enclosure on the summit, of about 30 or 40 feet in diameter, is surrounded by a rampart from 6 to 8 feet in thickness, faced on both sides with large undressed stones neatly laid, the interstice being filled up with small stones intermixed with earth. That at Ardneil stands on a finely isolated eminence called Auld Hill, and in front of the enclosure or praetorium there is an esplanade of 40, or 50 paces in length, very exactly formed and levelled" New Stat Acct [Statistical Account]

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