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Muircleuch
probably of more recent date. The tower whose walls
are reduced to a few feet in height measured
32 ft. by 24 ft. [32 feet by 24 feet] and the walls 4 ft. [feet] thick. Built of large
undressed boulders with very heavy stones at the
corners. No architectural features remain.

Whitslade
Returned to Harryburn to lunch & left Lauder
on bicycle at 2.20. Whitslade is prettily
situated on the left bank above the Leader. Its measure:
:ments may be taken from description but the
directions given are wrong. The door has been
on the E [East] side and the windows on the West.
Above the doorway has been a square shaft from
the room above. Not a corner stone remains
& the facings around the tower portion of the
walls have been almost entirely removed. A
few miles nearer Earlston on a hill called the
Cover hill on the farm of Birkenside are the
remains of a fort marked “site” on the Ord. S. [Ordnance Survey].

Cover Hill Fort Birkenside Hill
The field was under a crop of oats but two
concentric ramparts and an intervening ditch
somewhat to the east of the centre of the field
& curving round towards the South
were quite apparent. A labourer cutting thistles
assured me that no more was visible when the
field was not in crop. He also asserted that
similar remains were visible in the second

Rymer's Tower
field to the North West. Rymers Tower at Earlston
is an ivy covered ruin consisting of the

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