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about 1/2 a mile to the S.E. [South East] of the steading I found
the faint indications of a rampart, on the higher
part of the field just where the wood running up
from the E [East] turns sharply N. [North] The field is regularly
cultivated and the remains are of the slightest.
Thence to Channelkirk where I called on the Rev. [Reverend]
Mr. Allan, author of the history of the parish, and
had tea. Home about 6.0. I have been singularly
lucky in the weather which still continues fine.
Most of the grain is now gathered but I saw a
little near Tollis-hill being led in today.
17 Oct. 1908
Reached Channelkirk Manse on bicycle a few
minutes after 10.0 & started out at once with Mr. Allan.
The church built in the beginning of the 19th cent. [century] is quite
nice. The old Kirk road from Oxton is discernible leading
down the face of the hill across the valley & is said as
an ancient high way to have passed where now the
N. [North] wing of the manse is situated. A considerable walk
up hill brought us to the only visible relics of Roy’s
Roman camp at what must have been the N.W. [North West]
corner of it. At the upper side of a field on Glengelt
farm close to and passing under the Kirktonhill
march dyke are the fragmentary remains of a
rampart which has been much ploughed down.
The stones which along its course protrude from
the surface suggest that it is similar in construc:
:tion to the ramparts of most of the native forts in
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