OS1/21/18/40

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Camp continued:-

-terior of the Camp the ground is higher than the rampart. There is a very faint trace of a slight embankment of an ovate shape on the west side, and about 60 feet from the Camp, but its meager appearance would lead to the suggestion that it had no connection with the Camp as a place of defence.
"This Camp occupies one of a number of small knolls at the foot of the hill. It is remarkable from the small detached fortification on the west side, and also from the fact that on the north the ground in the interior of the Camp rises abruptly much higher than the rampart. It does not possess the advantage of any supply of water within its precincts." (On the ancient Camps of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire by G.V. Irving Esqr. F.A.S.

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