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11th June 1910.
Another beautiful day. Bicycled to
Killimster and met Mr Donald Mackenzie who
had located the "Ring of Killimster or Skitten."

[Margin] Fortified Enclosure
(unnoted)

Situated immediately to the E. [East] of the most N. [North] Westerly
of the Killimster crofts at the edge of a cultivated
field are the remains of a defensive construction.
A slight elevation rising from the moorland has
been encircled with a single rampart of earth
and stone having a ditch outside it. The enclosure
is oval measuring interiorly some 230' from SE [South East] to NW [North West]
by about 200' from NE [North East] to SW [South West]. The rampart
which is now of low elevation measures some
18' in breadth at base while the ditch is about
12' wide and at present level some 3' deep below
the top of the rampart. A break through the
circumvallation towards the SE [South East] has probably
been the entrance. The greater part of the
area is under cultivation but a small
portion on the SE [South East] is still in the moorland.
Many worked flints and chips have been
found on the site.
Returning with Mr Mackenzie to his mother's
croft he showed me several flints he had
picked up on the "Ring" also a pair of very
nice 18. century, wine glasses with white
spirals, which he had bought many years

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[Sketch inserted of wine glass] --

[Margin] Note. The glasses
referred to were
purchased by me
some ? years later
in Dowells sale
room where I chanced
to find them in
a mixed sale.
I bought the lot
inc. [including] the two mentioned & several others for about 15/- [£0.15.0].
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