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5 miles to Reston we did not accept Mr. Mair’s
hospitality. A visit to the site of the fort to the
N.N.E. [North North East] of Marygold farm accompanied by the
farmer & his wife, a nice young couple, showed
the outline still quite apparent in an old
grass field. It appears to have been an
almost circular fort enclosed with a
single rampart and ditch having a diameter
of about 220 ft. [feet] from crest to crest as far as
now ascertainable as it has been much
ploughed over. The farmer & his wife whose
name I believe is Calder, persuaded us to stay
to tea which as we were too late for the ‘bus from
Reston, we did. Glad to get home at 7.45 having
driven from Reston.

18th Augt. 1908. C’dingham [Coldingham] Loch No.11.
A cold breeze from N.E [North East] and drifting mist. About
10.20 set out with Stevenson & Macdonald to inspect
the Coldingham Loch forts. I think the high pressure
of the last fortnight is telling on me somewhat and I
do not have my usual energy. Through fields of
turnips & wet grass we found our way to fort No.11 of
the parish on a slight eminence much dilapidated with
quarrying and overgrown with whins. It appears
to have been encircled by a single rampart
of earth and stone forming an irregular oval
only on the West and East is it now really recognisable.
About 1/3 of a mile N.N.W. [North North West] in a clump of trees close to the

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