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upper terrace passes along the flank at an
elevation of at least 30' below the summit.

Ingleston Mote
Between the farm of Ingleston and the
road from Castle Douglas to Auchencairn
about [blank] yds. [yards] from the road is a natural
rocky hillock which has been adapted as a
mote by scarping the sides and levelling
up the summit. It is doubtful if it has
been entrenched as only for a very short distance,
and towards the ? NNE [North North East], is there any trace of
an outer bank to contain an entrenchment.
At the opposite end of the hillock a projecting
tongue of rock has evidently been levelled down
but obviously not cut through for a trench
or similar levelling has been effected on the
The hillock has a general height of about 18'
but with the fall of the ground towards the
(?) SSW [South South West] somewhat more in that direction. The
summit is a fairly regular oval with its
longest axis measuring 71' by
43'. Near the centre, is a low
oval mound with its longest axis identical
with that of the summit, measuring some
20' in length by 10' 6" in greatest breadth and
rising little if at all above the general level
but formed by the excavation of a shallow
trench around it from 4' to 7' wide, its

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