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edge of the summit and of the crest of the counter:
:scarp, is from 8' to 9', and its width 35' across the
top 12' across the bottom. As the trench passes
round towards the opposite side following the
natural levels it declines below the crest of the
scarp to 18' at the N. [North] angle where it debouches
on the bank. At the W. [West] angle where the ground
falls rapidly beyond the mote there is no
counterscarp but it reappears in the natural
extremity of the eminence cut off towards the N.W. [North West]

Mote Anwoth
(5)
The O.S. [Ordnance Survey] marks a mote at Anwoth behind a
cottage & close to a pond. It is a natural
hillock showing no sign whatever of man's
handywork in its shaping.

Anwoth
Churchyard
Lying just to the S. [South] of the W. [West] end of the old church
is a table stone measuring 5'.8" by 2'.9" com:
:memorating in doggerel rhyme John Bell of
Whiteside. The inscription runs thus:-
Here lyes John Bell of Whitesyde who was bar:
:bourously shot to death in the paroch of Tong:
:land at the command of Greir of Lag anno 1685.
This monument shall tell posterity
That blessed Bell of Whitesyde here doth ly
Who at command of bloody Lag was shot
A murther strange which should not be forgot

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