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Preston I obtained the services of a small boy at the
blacksmiths to assist me at Prestoncleuch fort, to
which I then walked. It is a remarkably fine
fort in good preservation and correctly described
I made the internal diameter from E. To W. [East to West] 244 ft. [feet]
from N. to S. [North to South] 251 ft. [feet] (these measurements from crest to crest). The breadth of the defences
at the E. [East] end. from crest to crest. 41 ft. [feet] and at the
West end from highest point of inner rampart to highest point
of middle 63 and from crest of middle to that of
outer 43 ft. [feet]. The Inner ditch at the West end was 10 ft. [feet]
below top of inner rampart & 12 below top of middle. and.
the outer ditch 12 ft. [feet] below top of middle rampart
and 9 ft [feet] below top of outer. The height of the
outer rampart on outside 5 ft. [feet]. The interior
is largely overgrown with heather and no founda:
:ions are discernible. As it was getting dusk
I hurried home giving a glance at Preston
Cross in passing (a rectangular shaft of Sandstone
about 5 ft. [feet] high set on a modern base etc.) Back
to Duns at 6.0 rather tired.

16 Oct. 1908
Harryburn. Lauder. At the meeting of the Commission
held on 14th. it having been decided that the inspection
in Berwickshire should be completed I arrived
here yesterday evening. Bicycled to Addinston
for the keeper, whom I subsequently met on the
road near Carfrae Mill & who joined me to point
out the fort on the Kelphope Burn valley. On enquiry

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