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forming a roadway to the interior. This
entrance gives into a slight circular hollow
within the enceinte around the outer edges of
which there are traces of a slight mound.
The whole area is overgrown with trees
and undergrowth and is consequently
difficult to examine.

Kelton. March Cleugh Fort.
Some [blank] yds. [yards] back from the steep
bank of the river Dee on its E. [East] side & about 1/4 m. [mile] N. [North] of the
spot marked as the site of Queen Mary's
Bridge is a small stone built fort greatly
dilapidated. Two outcropping and irregular
ridges of porphyry, rising about 12' above the surrounding level & bounding a grassy hollow
some 60' in length by 30' in breadth have
been utilised as the flanks of a fort, supple:
:mented along their crests by a stony ram:
:part or wall & returned across the ends of
the intervening hollow. The whole fort
appears to have formed a somewhat trapez:
:oidal figure measuring 88' from N. [North] to S. [South]
by 80' feet from E. [East] to W. [West] some [blank] yds [yards] to W. [West] of the fort is
an oblong nartural mound overgrown
with trees marked as a mote on the
O.S. [Ordnance Survey]. Along its base on the E. [East] at about 3'

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