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width across the flat bottom of 12' and 38' at
the level of the top of the counterscarp where the
latter is 12' in height towards the N [North].
The mound
which forms the counterscarp of the ditch
is to a great extent the outer slope of the
hillock. On the W. [West] where the ground level
falls some 12'- 14' there is a gap for a
distance of 27' or thereby the rampart
sloping gradually down to it from N [North] and
S. [South] elsewhere it is singularly complete except for
a gap on the NE [North East] made to gain access for
the cultivation of the trench . ( Mr. Coles plan
is accurate but his N. [North] is Magnetic.).

Boreland Fort.
Some 300 yds. [yards] due N. [North] of the mote hill on a
round backed hillock, surrounded on the
E [East] side by a bog, are the remains of a
curvilinear fort now much destroyed by cultiva:
:tion. It has been formed by a broad
& deep trench dug across the neck connecting
it with the higher ground to the E. [East], carried
to the bog at both ends. The scarp of this
trench is steep and has a vertical height of
about 10' while the counterscarp has
been almost entirely ploughed down.
Whatever other defences the fort may

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