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Rae Burn and about 1 1/2 m. [miles] above the confluence
of the latter with the White Esk. It lies on falling
ground facing straight down the valley to the
SW. [South West]. In form it is
circular with diameter of about 115' resting on
the edge of the bank on the SE. [South East],
and has been surrounded by a bank of earth
and stone some 15' broad at base with, on the
N. [North] arc, a trench some 25' in width having a slight
mound on the counterscarp. In front of the
trench the bank is more formidable than elsewhere
on the periphery. The entrance has been from the lower side. Some 50' to
the Eastward, beyond the enclosure is a site of
a hut, an oblong with rounded ends measuring
18' by 14' interiorly.

9th July 1912
Motored again up Eskdale taking with me for
company a man Allan, who was staying at the
hotel in Langholm.

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Roman Camp. Raeburnfoot
The camp at Raeburnfoot lies in a remote
pastoral valley some [--] miles from the town
of Langholm with grassy undulating hills
swelling up on all sides through which the
road winds onward to Ettrick. Its situation
is a plateau which lies in the angle formed by
the junction of the Rae Burn with the White
Esk and hard by a ford with a gradual in:
:clination from S. [South] and E. [East] a sharp rise to

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