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[Opposite page sketch inserted] ROAD

12th Sept. 1911.

Train to New Galloway station thence S'ward [Southward]
on bicycle. This mode of progress I much pre:
:fer to the motor car and unless the objects to
be visited are far distant from each other or from
a railway station I can over [cover] as much
during the day at a much smaller expense.

[Margin] Balmagie [Balmaghie] Par [Parish]
Little Duchra [Duchrae]

In passing I again visited this fort but
found the interior still impossible to examine
on account of the brackens. Presuming that
the fort presents a single facet to the road
the whole forms a pentagon, the four sides
along the ditch being very clearly marked.
The measurements should be in the previous vol. [volume].

[Margin] Craig Hill
Lochengower (Fort)

About 1 m. [mile] NE. [North East] of North Quintespie [Quintenespie] and 1/4 m. [mile]
to the SE. [South East] of the branch road from Lauriston [Laurieston] to Craig
from which it is easily approached this fort
is situated. It occupies a small rocky emin:
:ence lying just to the SW. [South West] of the higher Meikle
Dornell and overlooking a small sheet of
water, Lochangower [Lochengower], on the E [East]. Though in
no direction abrupt in its ascent the slopes all
round are rugged with outcropping rock
& boulders and on the NW. [North West] in close proximity
stands a rocky top of equal elevation.
Around the summit forming a flattened
elipse lie the ruins of a wall now

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