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suggested to me a converted keep but there
were no signs of windows and the whole work
seemed to be original. It was entirely lined inside
with square recesses for the pigeons.

Edington Castle Tumulus. (Ld [Lord] Tweedmouth)
Outside the garden in a park at the S.W. [South West]
corner I easily found the tumulus from which
a cist had been extracted about a century
ago. Oval in shape it was 43 ft. [feet] long, 27 broad
& 3 ft. [feet] high. It appeared to be of earth... at a
distance of 18 ft. [feet] on the S. [South] & W. [West] sides a bank
of earth forms an angle. [Sketch inserted] The bank is a
few feet in height and may be the remains
of an old wall or earth baulk. It now seemed
advisable to return to my search for the cup marked
stone so I rode back a mile over a considerable
hill, hid my bicycle behind a dyke & marched across
the fields to the spot indicated by the keeper. After

Edington hill Cup marked stone (Ld. [Lord] Tweedmouth)
much searching I found the stone still forming
the covering of a well. The stone is roughly a rectangu:
:lar block of freestone with a fairly flat surface
except where the surface has been broken off to:
:wards the right side. It is 4 ft. 4 in. [4 feet 4 inches] in length,
2 ft. 6 in. [2 feet 6 inches] in breadth and 10 inches deep. At the

[Margin] It is on farm of
E’ [Edington] hill & belongs
to Ld. [Lord] Tweedmouth.

top left hand corner is a cup mark 5 ins. [inches] long
3 ins. [inches] broad at the centre, & 1 1/2 to 3 ins. [inches] deep & some:
:what oval in shape. The tool marks singularly
apparent. The cup does not quite reach the edge

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