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the other stopping some feet short of it so as to
leave a passage way. Outside the trench on
the counterscarp rises a mound which ap:
:pears to have been carried beyond the termina:
:tion of the trench at the entrance, or else the
heap of soil etc in this position is due to what appears to
have been an excavation in the actual end of the
mound opposite the termination of the trench .
Beneath the defences at the entrance is a small
base court on the lower end of the hillock formed by an outer trench, seemingly
deepened from a natural hollow, which passes
into the edge of the burn beyond the end of the
hillock (Write description from Mr McGibbon's plan.)

14th Sept. 1911.
Rerwick Par [Parish]
Newlaw Hill
Cup & ring Marks
Unnoted.
Took Mr. Keith Murray out in his car to introduce
him to the study of Archaeology.
On the lowest shelf or plateau on the N. [North] side
of Newlaw hill, & about 1/2 m. [mile] due S. [South] of Auchengool
House , and equidistant some 50 yds [yards] from a
ditch which crosses the rough land E [East] and W [West]
to the Northward and a rivulet coming down
the hill on the E. [East] is a group of cup & ring mark:
:ings on a sloping rock surface facing towards
the NNW [North North West]. The rock is exposed for a distance
of 9' with a breadth of about 5'. At the E . [East]
end a portion measuring some 4'.8" by 3'
is divided by natural fissures into two quasi

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