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and sunk from 3' to 4' below the crest of the scarp,
which forms a parapet, and somewhat less below
the rest of the area. The entrance appears to
have been into this hollow at its S. [South] corner and is now
a break in the parapet some 3' wide. The ditch on
the SW. [South West] is 40' wide across the top and 20' across
the bottom which is some 6' below the top of the
counterscarp while on the three other sides its
width is only about 29' at the level of the top of this counter:
:scarp and 8' to 10' across the bottom. The ground
level falls from the SE. [South East] and except on that
flank the counterscarp is the inner side of
a bank measuring about 30' in thickness at
base on the NE [North East] side where it was heaviest. On the outer
face on that side there are remaining one or two
courses of a reveting wall. At the
W. [West] angle there is a break in
the regularity of the scarp of the SW. [South West] ditch
at 15' from its termination, which appears to be an approach and before it there
is visible a small portion of an outer mound
curving round so as to contain it
forming apparently a bailey.

Loch Maberry
Towards the W. [West] side of Loch Maberry at no
great distance from the shore is a group
of three islands. The most Southerly of these
which is also the most prominent & largest
has been engirt by a massive wall of

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