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stone near Low Eldrig which turned out to be
a mass of rock and of no archaeological interest.

6th July 1911.
Motored S. [South] to Whithorn to take up the
line where I last left off in this district.

Whithorn Par. [Parish] - Rispain Fort.
On the NE. [North East] slope of an isolated ridge running
from SW. [South West] to NE. [North East] and immediately to the NW. [North West]
of Rispain farm is a fort which is under
the protection of H.M. [His Majesty's] Office of Works and
which was excavated by the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland in 1901. In plan
the fort is rectilinear, three of the sides being
straight throughout and the fourth slightly
knee-ed near the centre of is course.
The defences have consisted of a large V shaped
ditch with a mound on each side of it
and a smaller ditch beyond the outer mound.
Of the outer ditch no trace remains on the
surface but in the excavations it was
traced from about the centre of the SW. [South West] side
to the S. [South] corner and along the SE. [South East] and NE. [North East]
sides of the camp except opposite the
gateway in the centre of the E. [East] side and
for a short distance on either hand of it.
Generally it measured 5' in width at top
and 3'.6" in depth, somewhat more at the
E [East] corner and less N. [North] of the gateway

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