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"Upon the side of a pleasant green hill in Romanno ground are to be seen eleven
or twelve large and orderly Terrace walks which in their Summer verdure cast a
bonny dash at a distance: and this I take not to be natural but a work of art because
upon the top of the hill there is a little round fortification of earth and stone with
a ditch about it as if it had been some Roman Garrison and these terraces cut out
to keep off horse the being to be seen on the top of several hills in Tweeddale. -- Pennicuik's Descripn. [Description] of Tweeddale page 187.


"As the site of it is in view of Pictland Hills about 5 miles distant and on the north side
the County of the Mæatæ these terraces which resemble the remains of some on the Girt Hill
near Carlops though they may have been formed by the Britons are probable agreeable to the
popular tradition Pictish. According to some antiquarians they were intended for purposes
connected with amusements".

The place is about six miles from the Sepulchral cairns beyond Linton between the
Pentland Hills and Dunsyre about five from Carlops and Paties-hill and about four
from the fort at Whitefield in the line between the Carlops". -- Ibid [as above] page 188 Foot notes

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Transcriber's notes

See also pages 34 and 35.