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[Continued from page 114]

5th July 1910.

[Margin] Ashlys Cairn
(15)
Bower Par. [Parish]

On the crest of the moorland about 1m. [mile]
W. by N. [West by North] of Lyth school is a small cairn measur:
:ing some 30' in diameter and 3' in elevation
A depression on the top probably implies
that it has been excavated.

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[Margin] Ring of Castle Hill.
(1)

About 1/2 m. [mile] to the S. [South] of Barrock Home farm
is a circular green mound rising from the middle
of a moss now drained, which has evidently
been a fort of small extent. A ditch some
35' in width encircles it at its base having on
the outside a bank formed of the upcast
some 2'.6" in elevation above the natural level
and 11' broad across the top which is flat.
The ditch has a depth of some 5' below the
level of the top of this outer bank and the
scarp to the top of the breastwork which
crowns it rises to a height of 8'.2" above the
bottom. The breastwork, which seems to be
an earthern mound, is some 8' thick at base
& some 2' - 3' high on the inner side. The
diameter of the interior is some 94'. The
entrance has been from the N. [North] from which direction
the continuity of the ditch is interrupted
by an approach unexcavated some 15' wide.
There is no stonework visible through the
turf with which the construction is covered
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