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either entrance through the inner rampart is a crescentic depression traversing
the roadway which crosses the ditches. At the
S. [South] it is 27 ft. [feet] in length from point to point and
7 ft. [feet] across. That at the W. [West] is 35 ft. x 8 ft. [35 feet x 8 feet]. A low
mound continues the line of the rampart across the
entrance. The depth of the crescentic depression
on the W. [West] is about 2 ft. [feet]. The roadway appears to
have entered diagonally. At the highest point
on the N.W. [North West] the inner rampart is 17 ft. [feet] above the ditch & the middle
on the inside 16 and outside 9. In the centre is
a circular enclosure with a raised mound.
7 ft. [feet] across, the interior diameter 42, height of
mound 2 ft. [feet] on outside & less on inside. On
the left of the entrance on the W. [West] side is a circular founda:
:tion with an internal diameter of 32 ft. [feet] having an entrance facing S.E. [South East] and
to the E [East] of it & close to the large circle another
with an internal diameter of 27 ft. [feet].

Wallace’s Knowe
A walk of about 1 1/2 miles up the Glenburnie
under the guidance of Mr. Dickinson farmer,
at Longcroft brought us to Wallace’s Knowe.
on the East side of the Whelplaw burn on a
projecting spur of the Widecleuch Rig. Steep
& stony on all sides except towards the S. [South] where
it joins the hill. Across the neck two ramparts
have been erected with a single ditch on the
outer side. The ditch is 7 1/2 ft. [feet] below the crest
of the rampt [rampart] & of the top of the counterscarp

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