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the rampart is traceable curving inwards from
either side to pass along the edge of the bank where it is
steepest. To the Eastward of where it impinges on
the bank at the upper side there is a gap in
the periphery opposite a hollow which leads down
to the burn and which may have served for watering
cattle. In the middle of the W. [West] side there is an
opening evidently enlarged measuring some 15'
across the bottom which has probably been the
original entrance. A narrow gap towards the
N. [North] is probably secondary. There is no indication
of any trench outside the rampart

30 July 1912.
I am at the Eskdale Hotel, Temperance, but very
comfortable. My assistant has been a reporter on the "Dispatch"
and aspires to literature as a profession.

2nd July 1912.
In very doubtful weather set off up Eskdale
on bicycle. Called on Capt. [Captain] Palmer Douglas
to enquire if the Museum at Burnfoot contained
any local antiquities but found none. Mrs
Palmer Douglas took me to the two following unnoted
objects (p. [page] 102) which she described as "birrens".

1st July 1912.
Westerkirk Par. [Parish] Fort Bankhead
This fort is situated at the very extremity of the
South slope down from the Shaw Rig, close
to the left bank of the Bankhead Burn and
some 150 yds. [yards] above its confluence with the
Esk. It is almost circular, measuring interiorly

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