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is a trench about 8' in width, 6' below the scarp
& 3' below the counterscarp which winds S'wards [Southwards]
for some 60' terminating in an oval hollow
measuring 20' by 15', from the end of which a
narrower passage some 20' in length leads out
to a plat on the hill side. The whole ap:
:pearance of the summit seems to suggest
a continuous occupation.

15th Sept. 1911.
Colvend & Southwick Par [Parish]
Heugh of Laggan Cairn. (Site.)
Train to Dalbeattie & bicycle to the coast. A
lovely day and very warm.
Somewhat less than 1/4 m. [mile] NE. [North East] of Heugh of Laggan
farm, near a burn and in a small cultivated
field is a small circular cairn. It is very
regular in shape but the rabbits have turned
up yellow sand on the top of it which makes
me doubt its sepulchral character. In any case
it is low in elevation and of no importance.
The cairn by the road side below the farm
is a mere "site". The farmer told me of
its having been explored long ago but
with no result.

Porto'warren Fort.
On the E [East] side of Portowarren Bay a small
spit of rock projecting from the face of
the heughs at an elevation of some [--] ft. [feet]
above the sea level has been formed into a
triangular fort by cutting a trench segmentally

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Transcriber's notes

3 lines from bottom - missing elevation is 100 feet (see the 'Fifth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway, Volume 2, County of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright' (1914)).