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7th Augt. 1908.
Obtained the services of a boy for the
day and set off for the Coldingham Loch forts.
Having omitted to bring my large scale map I ex:
:perienced the greatest difficulty in finding them

Coldingham Loch fort no.10 (? Burn Murdoch)
& eventually found No.10 which I took for No.11. of
my map. I could not make it agree with Dr. [Doctor] Christison’s
description. It is situated on the top of a small
rocky hillock, considerably overgrown with whins
about 500 yds. [yards] S by E [South by East] of Westloch farm house.
I found it a small oval fort surrounded with
a single rampart of earth & stone except at the
N.W. [North West] corner where for a short distance it is doubled
at a distance of 26 ft. [feet] from crest to crest. The entrance
appears to have been at the S.E. [South East] but it is indefinite.
The rampart at the N.W. [North West] has been
removed for a short distance by quarrying. The
longest diameter from crest to crest of rampart
is 142 ft. [feet] the breadth at centre 110”. The rampart
on the N.E. [North East] is carried straight along the top
of an outcropping rock which continues beyond
the turn of the rampart. In the S.E. [South East] corner
is a circular depression with an interior
diameter of 24 ft. [feet]. Much time was wasted looking
for fort No.11. which I gave up eventually & passed
Westward towards Oatlee Hill. I crossed Earnsheuch
500 ft. [feet] above the sea then dipped down to the westerside
Dean where through a lovely glen with honeysuckle

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