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the S. [South] and by a bank of irregular outline rising
to about the same height on the N. [North] and N E. [North East].
Facing the glen along the S. [South] side and
curving across the E [East] end of the eminence is a
trench now of slight depth and some 12' in width
with a low rampart outside it. Along the N. [North]
and W. [West] sides there are no longer any traces
of the defences.

Picts Knowe
In the middle of a flat stretch of land
lying between (?) Marthrown Hill and Cargen
formerly as Moss - the Moss of Mabie there
rises a low green mound of pure sand known
as the Picts Knowe which has been converted into
a fortified site by an encircling ditch within a rampart
to the outside. The circular mound in the
centre has had its outline considerably broken
by burrowing rabbits and
similarly also the lines of the rampart and
ditch are somewhat irregular. The central
area measures some 60' in diameter: the
ditch about 26' across and 5' in depth
and the rampart 31' in width from the
bottom of the counterscarp of the ditch to the
base of the scarp outside and 3' in height
above the outer ground level. A broad
roadway leads out across the ditch towards

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