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with two intervening mounds. The general
form of the fort is almost lozenge shaped. It
is situated within a wood except for a short distance
on the N. [North].
Within this wood I dropped one of my marked
maps and just as I was contemplating with
disgust a journey back to Edinburgh to mark
another I found it among some ferns where it
had evidently fallen from my pocket.

Carsphairn Braidenoch Hill Crosses.
Lying on the W. [West] slope of Braidenoch Hill
near the top and about [--] yds. [yards] S. [South] of the
actual summit are two incised crosses, the
one complete though broken and the other a
fragment. About them lie several other blocks
of seemingly quarried whinstone and their
position is most easily found from the north
wall of the field which comes from the side of
Braidenoch Cottage standing E [East] and W. [West] in the
valley below. The crosses are similar
in design. The most complete measures 13"
in length, is equal armed and hollow angled,
with arms expanding from 3" to 5", 5" in
length, and with a boss in the centre 1 1/2" in diameter.
The cross head is set on a shaft 17" in length
expanding downwards from 2" to 3".
The slab on which this cross is incised

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