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it drops with a steeper gradient. The N. [North] flank
is protected by the glen of the burn: on the S. [South]
lies cultivated land from which all traces of the
defences have disappeared. The fort has been
four sided the W. [West] side being very strongly defended.
A scarp from the summit level 4' in heght drops to a broad
flat bottomed ditch 33 ft. [feet] across beyond which
there rises a rampart which at greatest elevation
has a height of 4 ft. [feet]. Beyond this with another
broad ditch intervening is a second rampart
with a greatest height of 5'.6" protected in front by
an outer trench some 40 ft. [feet] wide. Following
the defences round to the N. [North] the angle is rounded
and nearly a right angle: as the space
between the plateau and the burn diminishes
the inner rampart is eliminated and the
outer converges to meet a terrace halfway
along the N. [North] side some 12' below the sum:
:mit level and considerably more above the
burn. This terrace gradually disappears as
it passes toward the end of the long slope
down from the E. [East] end of the plateau. There is
a suggestion of a wall across the E. [East] end of
the plateau but no trench or rampart is now
visible in that direction. On the W. [West] a
field dyke crosses the plateau beyond which lies

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