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line 4 - 'indications' seems to have been scored out, but nothing has replaced it and it doesn't make sense without it.

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which may have been slightly hollowed connects
it with a larger flat topped hillock beyond. The
summit is oval & flat measuring some 50' by 28'.
Around the edge are slight [indications] of a stony
parapet and at the upper edge of the slope, es:
:pecially apparent towards the NW [North West] there are
signs of stone-work, probably to sustain
the edge of the summit, which may have been
levelled up at this point. On the NW. [North West] face
some 12' below the summit there is traceable
for a short distance a supported terrace some
5' to 6' wide but which appears to merge into
the steep N. [North] slope of the hillock. On the SE. [South East]
some 22' below the summit there is another
terrace which passes across the neck leading
into a trench which separates the two hillocks
on the W [West]. How much, if any, of these latter
features are artificial it is hardly possible
to determine without excavation.

[Margin] Edgarton "Mote"

This interesting defensive site lies about 1/4
m. [mile] E [East] of Edgarton farm and nearly 1/2 m. [mile] W. [West] of
the road from Laurieston to Ringford
It occupies a natural and prominent rocky

[Margin] Try to check height from O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 25"

hillock rising to a height of 50' or 60' at the S. [South] end of a long serpent:
:tine ridge running down from the higher
ground to the N [North]. The hillock has a steep

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