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extremity 57'. For a distance of about 35' from the NE. [North East] end
it has almost entirely removed thereafter it
rises in elevation from 6' to 11'. The front has been
very straight and there is no indication of a
frontal semicircle. At one or two places on the
W [West] side & at the SW. [South West] end. small portions of a built
facing wall are still discernible. At one or two points
slight excavation has been attempted with no results.
(On enquiry from his uncle Mr. Gladstone was
informed that this formally constructed mass
of stone was the debris from a lead prospecting
working made about 1856. This I decline to
believe as the construction has all the appear:
:ance & character of an ancient cairn. It is
worthy of notice that the name Picts' Cairn
is now applied to a stony eminence in the
wood near by on which there is not the
slightest suggestion of their ever having been
a cairn or artificial erection of any sort.
At the corner of a field near the washing house
is a large talus of stones which have all
the appearance of having been taken from a
working.)

10th June 1912.
Penpont. Virginhall Plantation.
About 1/4 m. [mile] to the W. [West] of the Nith Bridge on the left
side of the road from Penpont to Thornhill lies the Virgin:
:hall Plantation within which is the site of a
fort. A plateau with a steep bank some 20'

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