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Defensive Enclosure. Airyhemming (6)
Situated in a grass field at an elevation of about
350' above sea level to the S. [South] of the upper end of the
Glen plantation and about 1/2 m. [mile] NW. [North West] of Airyhemming
are the remains of a small defensive enclosure.
The position it occupies has no relation to any natural
defensive advantages not is it in any sense com:
:manding. In form the enclosure is an
irregular oval measuring over all some 92'
in length by 66' in breadth. It is in large
measure overgrown with grass and its details
are further concealed beneath stones gathered
off the fields but it appears to have con:
:sisted of two main enclosures. One
irregularly circular measuring interiorly some
31' by 40' and apparently subdivided occupying
the central part of the enclosure, and a
second which forms a small ear-like pro:
:jection against the W. [West]. The wall around
the central enclosure appears to be some 10'
in thickness on the N. [North] and 7' on the S. [South] while
on the E [East] it is represented by a bank of
stone 18' or more in thickness and higher than
elsewhere being some 4' above the level of the
interior. Over this bank are exposed in line
on the surface several large blocks of stone
commencing from a single standing stone towards

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