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Transcriber's notes

line 5 - missing height is 150'-200' (see https://canmore.org.uk/site/63641/trustys-hill-anwoth)

Transcription

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Anwoth Par. [Parish]
Trusty's Hill Vitrified Fort.
In an undulating region of rocky hillocks
and midway between the church of Anwoth
and Gatehouse of Fleet there rises a hill
more conspicuous than its neighbours to a height
of [--] & known as Trustys Hill. It lies
with its main axis NW [North West] and SE [South East] slopes up
by a gradual incline from the latter direction
and is steep, and in places craggy on the
flanks and at the NW. [North West] end. Towards the
N. [North] at a level some 30' or thereby below the
summit it is connected by a neck with rising rocky
ground beyond. The summit of this hill
is crowned by a fort reputed to be vitrified
but though vitrified material is still to be
picked up on its surface, where the summit
rampart has not been torn up, it is so over:
:grown with turf that it is impossible now
to estimate the extent of the vitrifaction.
The actual summit which is very uneven
measures some 95' in length by 64' in breadth
and has been surrounded by a stony rampart
or wall which has enclosed at its SE [South East] end & at some 6' lower level
two projecting rocks 11' apart, between which
has evidently been an approach. On the
top of each rock there is a hollow, artificial
depression; that on the N. [North] circular with an

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