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a smaller circle with an interior diameter
of 13' clearly secondary.
Bicycled back by Tarf bridge and Dirnow
reaching home in time to escape a deluge of rain.
The rocky scenery of the fells, with the magnificent
prospect which they command makes them
an attractive field for work, but as the time
is spent dashing up hill and down dale all
day long considering these perplexing remains
it is an exhausting one.

24th May.
Train to Glenluce and bicycle up the Luce valley
to a cottage at the mouth of the Gabsnout burn
where we left our bicycles.

Old Luce Camrie Fell Enclosure.
Between the glens of Camrie and Gabsnout burns
lies Camrie Fell a round topped hill
cultivated nearly to its summit 525' above
sea level. At the SW. [South West] extremity of it in unbroken
moorland and parallel with the highest fields
on Gleniron Several is a large four sided enclosure

[Margin] see dimensions on O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 6" or 25"

nearly 1/4 m. [mile] in length
clearly not defensive by reason of its size
and position, formed by
a ditch from 2' to 3' in depth and 12' or
thereby in width with a bank formed of the
upcast on the inner side. The enclosure
lies just under the brow of the hill facing
the SE. [South East]. Within it near its NE. [North East] end in a

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