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the slight remains of another which has measured
some 56’ in diameter.

[Margin] Omit?

About 150 yds. [yards] S.W. [South West] of the farm house of May is
a circular artificial mound about 3’ in height
and 54’ in diameter with a slight bank
around the edge of the top and a low mound
in the centre. It is stoney but of indeterminate
character probably a thrashing floor!

Vitrified Fort. Doon of May. (6)
On the summit of a rocky eminence about
1/2 m. [mile] W. [West] of the farm house of May are the remains
of a small fort. The site is cut off from the
moor to the S. [South] and E [East] by a broad natural
hollow. Around the edge of the rocky
scarp of the eminence there are for the most
part exposed, and elsewhere traceable beneath
the turf, the remains of a wall which appears
to have been continuously vitrified throughout
its course and, as far as visible, to its base.
The facing stones have almost entirely gone
but where at one place towards the S. [South], the
lowest course is apparent it indicates
a breadth of about 10’ for the wall. The
area enclosed is an irregular elipse
with its longest axis E and W. [East and West] and
measures diametrically about 140’ x 100’.
The approach has probably been by a path

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