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stair intact to the top and well looked after.
On the 1st. floor is an ambry with nice cusped gothic
arch. There has been a connection through a
door on the 1st. floor level with a range of buildings
to the ? E [East] now demolished.

[Margin] Buittle Par [Parish]
Castle Gower Fort.

This fort is situated about 1/2 m. [mile] SE. [South East] of the
farm of Castle Gower from which it is
most easily approached. It occupies an isolated
rocky eminence rising to a height of 80' or thereby
from its base to its summit and lying with its
longest axis NW. [North West] and SE [South East]. Steep and in places
precipitous on the W. [West] side it rises with
a gradual inclination from SE. [South East] while
its E. [East] flank like the W. [West] is steep but grassy.
The summit is an irregular oval measuring some 152' by 56'.
The lines of the defences are not very clear. Towards
the NW. [North West] some 15' in elevation below the summit
there is a terrace cut across the steep ter:
:minal ridge some 15' in width which appears
to be traceable, but by no means definite, round
by the E. [East] to the S. [South] end of the hill. Some 10'
above this also at the NW. [North West] is a shelf like
area apparently levelled out of the rock
measuring some 30' by 37' above which
some 5' in elevation commences the actual
summit which rises with a slight inclination
towards the SE [South East]. Along the higher portion of

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