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Habchester Fort.
Having located the fort of Habchester from its
conspicuous ramparts I hid my bicycle behind
a wall and made my way to the top of the
hill where it was situated. Though one half has
been entirely obliterated it is still a most striking
fort with two ramparts a couple of ditches &
an outer counterscarp without a parapet. I
made use for the first time of my surveyor’s staff
& clinometer and found them both most handy.
The height of the inner rampart from the foot of the
ditch I found to be 12 feet – that of the outer rampart
10 ft. and the depth of the outer ditch 6 ft. 6 ins
below the top of the counterscarp. The defences
measure 78 ft. overall from the crest of the
inner rampart to the top of the counterscarp.
The ramparts are of earth & stone their sub:
:stance being discolosed at a spot where the
sheep have broken the inner one. The measur:
:ments were taken from the centre of the
remaining portion of the defences. I probed
the centres of the sites in the zone at rear
of the rampart & found stone in all
cases a few inches below the surface.

Lamberton Church.
I next proceeded over Lamberton Moor
by an execrable road to Lamberton old
church. a deserted place – overgrown with
nettles & weeds & nothing of interest visible.
A kindly steward’s wife directed me over the hill
by a path used by the postman to Mordington

Mordington (R. Campbell Renton)
thus saving me many miles. Mordington
“vault” I found in a plantation near the
house surrounded by nettles higher than my
head. I much regretted having no heel-ball
to make a rubbing of the inscription – an at:
:tempt with grass and the paper off my sand:
:wiches not being satisfactory & the place was
too dark to make a successful copy. I then
called at Foulden, having previously visited
Edrington Ho. [House] by mistake. The Wilkies were

Foulden Churchyard.
in Berwick. In Foulden churchyard I found
the memorial to “Georg Ramsay in F. [Foulden] Bastel”
& the old fort. Foulden Bastel survives
only in the name. Thence to Chirnside where
I was glad to get tea at the Waterloo Arms
& half an hour’s rest before setting off to the
station. Bicycled from Reston & home about
6.30. Find everyone very polite & all the
farm people I speak to interested. It has
been rather windy today & there were one or
two heavy showers – rode 24 miles, & did not
feel the least tired when I got in though I never
rested for more than 10 mins [minutes] & that only once when
I eat my lunch in a cottage at Lamberton.

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