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12th June 1911. Berman of Garvilland (Fort)
Bicycled to Glenluce and Garvilland & Drumphail.
The Berman of Garvilland is a conspicuous
rocky hill which forms the termination
towards the NE. [North East] of a group of similar
Fells in the SE. [South East] corner of New Luce parish and
some four miles N. [North] of the village of Glenluce.
The hill rises up gradually for some 25' with a narrow
rocky ridge from the NE. [North East] to an altitude of
600' over sea level thence runs into the higher
moorland which separates it from the Bught
Fell on the SW [South West] by an easy slope to the 525'
level. The flanks of the ridge are very steep
and naturally defended by irregular faces
of rock while long beds of outcropping rock
form hollows and ridges up the NE. [North East] slope.
Around the summit following the edge
of the escarpment on either side and crossing
the slope on the NE. [North East] some 195' distant from
the highest point are the ruins of a stony
rampart or wall very fragmentary on the
flanks where the stones for the most part
have fallen over the rock. Where it crosses
the hollows on the SE. [South East] it has been sup:
:plemented by an outer rampart.
At the SW. [South West] extremity where the fall

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