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enquiries about it before I can be certain.

"The Brough" Southwick
Opposite the home farm at Southwick across the
road is a partially artificial mound bearing
the name of "The Broch" which shows no signs
of having borne any such structure but appears
to have been a mote hill. It is situated at
the edge of a plateau
which falls sharply to the roadway on the S [South] and to a
a small stream flowing
past below it on the E. [East] The mound,
the outline of which is rather irregular, is approx:
:imately oval with its longest axis N N W. [North North West] and S S E [South South East].
Above the plateau on the N [North] it has an elevation
of about 6' and at its base on that side there
is a faint indication of a ditch, while above
the bed of the burn its summit rises to a height
of about 25'. Towards the S. [South] it is some
14' in height above the gentler slope in which
the bank tails out. The summit is fairly
level, measures in diameter some 70'
by 60' and on the S. [South] retains a trace of a
parapet mound. From the N W [North West]
a somewhat artificial looking bank with
a flat top winds along the park in the
direction of the angle where the mound
meets the bank of the burn, terminating

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