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carted away. The average diameter is about
16'.
About 100 yds [yards] down from the low side of the
Ellrig Plantation near its W. [West] side is another
small group. Over a small hillock to the
E. [East] there may be seen in a hollow the ruins of
an ancient sheep fold rectangular in form.

Small Cairns and Hut circles.
On the S. [South] side of the glen about 1/4 m. [mile] SSE. [South South East] of
the E. [East] point of the Ellrig wood and on the
end of one of the many round-backed undulating
ridges which trend down the hillside is a large
group of small cairns with a circular
sheep fold occupying the highest point. An
examination of the wall of the fold shows that
it has been erected on an older stone founda:
:tion 5' in breadth, probably belonging to a
hut circle which has measured interiorly
some 29' by 25'. Traceable down the hillside
to the Eastward is the line of an ancient
wall now greatly delapidated against which
lie the ruins of several small circular or
sub-oval enclosures, while some 40' to the E. [East]
of the sheep fold is an oblong enclosure measuring
interiorly some 14' by 5'.6". surrounded by a
faint outline of stones. Beyond
the wall to the Eastward a rivulet flows

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