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mouth of the river and we met many bathers regardless
of appearances making their way down to the water
from the villas on the higher ground. Across the
Solway the Cumberland Hills were quite clear to view.

16 Sept. 1911.
Wrote up notes & paid a visit to Boreland of Parton
Mote which I must describe from Mr. McGibbon's
plan. It is a natural rocky hillock entrenched
& ramparted . The trench which starts at the edge
of the steep bank above the burn encircles the
hillock terminating some [--] ft. [feet] back from the
bank. The rampart on the outside forming the
counterscarp appears to have been dug into at
this end of the defences where there is a circular
hollow, but beyond the hollow towards the
edge of the bank there is a slight mound
which seems to indicate that the rampart was
here carried onwards beyond the termination
of the trench probably leaving a comparatively
narrow space between it and the edge for
an approach. The trench does not follow
the base of the hillock as it falls away to:
:wards the ?S. [South] but curves round cutting off a portion as if for a base court at the
lower end which has been protected by
an outer trench starting in what may have
been a natural hollow where the level of the
mound begins to fall, & beyond the main

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Transcriber's notes

line 10 - missing distance is 28 feet (see the 'Fifth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway, Volume 2, County of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright' (1914)).