gb0551ms-36-35-125

Transcription

[Page] 125

29th Sept. 1911.
The Doon Nun Mill
Twynholm Par. [Parish]
This fort is situated on the top of the steep
wooded bank which rises above the road from
Kirkcudbright to Senwick just to the Westward
of Nun Mill. From an elevation of some
90' above the low meadow, which intervenes
between the bank and the foreshore, the fort
commands the mouth of the Dee as the river
opens into Kirkcudbright Bay. A double
entrenchment with an intervening mound
and a second mound to the outside
in horseshoe form, resting on the edge of
the bank has enclosed an area with a chord of
some 179' and a radius at its greatest depth
of 154'. On the E. [East] the defences have been
considerably effaced but elsewhere they are
unusually well preserved. The inner scarp
which is sloped. to an angle of some 40° varies
in height up to 14' while the trench
from crest to crest measures from 30' to 40'
in width: the intermediate mound is promin:
:ent and well formed: the outer trench has a
width of 24' to 30' with a steep scarp as high
as 8' and a counterscarp of 3' to 4'. Along
the crest of the intermediate rampart are traceable
the foundations of a narrow wall some 2'.6"
in width which has occupied the flat top .

[Continued on page 126]

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Kate51- Moderator, mac1