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Lanarkshire -- Lamington and Wandel Parish

[Camp Arbory Hill continued]
[there] is an opening or gate through it on the East side, the second rampart is more circular and the inside or top rampart which is formed of stones is nearly a true circle.
'In Lamington parish opposite the mouth of the Raggen Gill Arbory Hill rises isolated in a conical form to the height of about 500 feet above the level of the Clyde. On its top is a circular fortification, formed by three concentric ramparts, with an interval of 10 yards between them, the diameter of the interior being 264 feet. There is no well or other supply of water' (On the Ancient Camps of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire by G. V. Irving Esqr
'The most remarkable one of the kind in the Parish is that of Arbory Hill which rises about 500 feet on a conical form. This hill has been fortified on the top having a broad ditch of about 3 yards with a rampart. At about 6 yards within this rampart there is a second ditch,2 yards or so in the middle, and within it a mound about 10 feet in height. At the distance of probably 16 yards and still further up the hill is found a ring or circle of stones, measuring it is said 9 yards in thickness and four feet in height, and enclosing a space of ground in its natural state of about 44 yards in diameter. This has been held by some to have been a military station of the Britons; while others are inclined to view it as an ancient Druidical temple or place of worship'. (New Stat [Statistical Act [Account].
Mr Sim of Coulter Mains, a local antiquary, says that he considers this to be a Druidical Temple and the name of the hill to be synonymous with 'Abury', the great station of the Druids in the South of England.