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which diminishes towards the interior. This
may have been the entrance. The fort is
situated in a wood and the ramparts are in
places overgrown with shrubs & thicket so
that it is difficult to make accurate measurements.

Kirkcolm. Craigoch Fort. (8)
On the left bank of the Craigoch burn, some
300 yds. [yards] NE. [North East] of High Milton and opposite the
site & fragmentary remains of Craigoch Castle,
is an isolated rock protected by the burn on
the W. [West] and by a natural fosse on the
NE. [North East] and E. [East] above which it rises to a height of
some 12' or thereby. The top of the rock
which is overgrown with grass measures
some 60' by 50. On the W. [West] part of it is a
circular enclosure with an interior dia:
:meter of 27' surrounded by a bank some
7' in thickness. Within the interior are
two cup shaped depressions 1' in depth &
4' in diameter and towards the W. [West]
between the bank of the circle
and an outer bank which at this point
crowns the scarp of the rock there is an
oblong hollow some 6' - 7' in length and of
indeterminate breadth. Occupying the
remainder of the area and against
the bank of the circle on the E. [East] is an

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