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19" Sept.1911.
Urr Par. [Parish]
Little Richorn

Abutting on the left bank of the Urr just
where the stream takes a right angled bend
to the right and to the W. [West] of the farm of Little
Richorn is a mound on which some excavation
was done in 1891 and reported in the Trans. [Transactions] Dumfries
& Galloway Nat. Hist etc Soc. [National Historical Society]1892 The mound with
a straight Base to the river is in form a
? truncated ellipse surrounded by
a trench some 40' to 50' wide across the top
running from the NW. [North West] at the river bank round to the
SE [South East] the remaining S. [South] quadrant being now the bed
of a burn but originally most probably a continu:
:ation of the trench. The height of the mound
above the bottom of the trench is about 9'
and the length of the slope from the river
bank 66'. The summit slightly convex.
Measures 70' from E. to W. [East to West] by 50' from N to S. [North to South]
In no direction does it slope downwards at a
greater angle then 18 [degrees]. The only constructive
feature exposed by the excavation was an
outward and downward sloping strip of
roughly hewn granite blocks. etc. see Coles
Antiq. [Antiquary] 1893 p.102

Colvend & S'wick Par [Parish]
The Moyle
Barnbarroch
Moyle Hill is a conspicuous rocky
eminence rising to a height of [--] ft above
sea level to the E. [East] of Upper Barnbarroch

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