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from a cloudless sky all day. In the Rev. [Reverend] Mr. McConochie
the parish minister I found a most interesting & sympath:
:etic companion. Meaning to be back to lunch about
3.0 we went poorly provided with victuals and we
were two weary wanderers that crawled into Lauder
about 6.0’clock – too late even for tea! There are said
to be many adders on the moors especially near the
Haerfaulds but I have not seen one. I was too tired
to write up all my notes last night & they have been finished.
before breakfast this morning (14 Aug.).

14 Augt. 1908 Chester Hill Fort Lauder
Accompanied by the schoolmaster visited
Chester Hill Fort on the golf course, at Lauder.
The interior & S.W. [South West] sides have been much destroyed
by quarrying and the ramparts pulled to pieces
for stones. On the East the two ramparts are
distinct, measure from crest to crest
about 50 ft. [feet] and are about 3 ft. [feet] high. They appear
to have been of stone and there does not seem
to have been a ditch. There are a number of
depressions in the interior & outcropping stones
about them but the quarrying has rendered the
the plan very indefinite. The (?) Coldshiels
plantation about 1/2 m. [mile] to the S. [South] which was said
to contain a camp showed no vestiges of anything
of the sort. at Muircleuch on the North side of a glen
about 1/4 mile from the farm of that name are the
remains of a peel tower and of a number of buildings

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