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Carsphairn Par. [Parish] Carminnow Fort ?(unnoted)
About 3/4 m. [mile] to the Westward of the High
Bridge of Ken where the Deugh cutting its
way into a narrow channel through walls
of rock makes a sudden bend at right
angles to its previously S. [South] Easterly course is
situated a prehistoric fort. Resting
on the precipitous cliffs on either flank the
angle is contained by a triple rampart of earth & stone and
intervening hollows now much effaced.
Towards the centre of the defences a
ridge approaches from the N. [North] and here they
are best preserved. The outer line is faintly
discernible, the intermediate mound measures
some 24' in breadth at base and in height
about 4'. Over a space 30' from crest to crest
rises the inner mound some 6'.6" in height
and 27' broad at base. Towards the NE. [North East]
the level dips in the interior and here
the scheme of defence appears to have been
modified there being in rear a trench
30' wide & about 3' deep. The mounds
are much levelled on this flank and difficult
to determine. At 77' from the edge of the rock
by the river on the E. [East] there appears to have been
an entrance through the defences which towards
the river have clearly consisted of three trenches

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