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Wamphray Par. [Parish] Castle Knowe Saughtree
This is a fragmentary site situated by the side
of a farm road some [blank] yds. [yards] to the N. [North] of Saughtree
farm and consists of a knoll or slight
promontary measuring some 27 ft. [feet] across at base
and projecting some 17 ft. [feet] out from the face of
a steep bank with a trench around it some 16 to
18 ft. [feet] below the summit measuring some 12 ft. [feet] wide
at the level of the counterscarp some 3 ft. [feet] in height.
The construction appears to be of earth and stone
but is within a wood, overgrown with a forest
of nettles and no doubt has been considerably
interfered with by the roadway.

13 Augt. [August] 1912
Hutton and Corrie Stone Circle Whitcastle
Situated on open moorland at an elevation of
some ? 850 ft. [feet] over sea level and 1 mile to the
North West of Whitcastle farm is a stone
circle consisting of nine massive blocks of
for the most part whinstone boulders. All the
stones lie prostrate with the possible exception of one on the
Western arc the point of which protrudes
about 1 ft. [feet] 10 ins. [inches] above ground. The largest
blocks are on the N. [North] and S. [South] : the former a
roughly oblong mass measuring
7 ft. [feet] 4 ins. [inches] by 4 ft. [feet] 3 ins. [inches] by 2 ft. [feet] 10 ins. [inches] in thickness
and the latter a pointed boulder 7 ft. [feet] 1 in. [inch]
long by 3 ft. [feet] 9 ins. [inches] in greatest breadth and 2 ft. [feet] in
thickness. The diameter of the circle has

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