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[Page] 105[Continued from page 104]
distant from it in the end of the trench there
appears to be a wall. The trench, which broadens
out by the wall, contracts at 66 ft. [feet] beyond it where
the rampart is much more massive than else:
:where and the counterscarp has a height of
from 5 ft. [feet] to 6 ft. [feet].
The second fort on Newland Hill some 450 yds. [yards]
to the Eastward is adjacent to the actual summit
of the hill at an elevation of 1000 ft. [feet] over sea level.
It consists merely of a scarp some 6 ft. [feet] to 8 ft. [feet] in
height on the S W. [South West] quadrant of a circle with a
slight hollow at its base. There is no
indication that the construction has even been
proceeded with further as the fragment ter:
:minates apruptly and the rest of the supposed
periphery is not naturally protected.
Dryesdale Fort Raggiewhat
At the upper edge of a field some ? 300 yds. [yards]
E. [East] by S. [South] of Raggiewhat, and close by the side of
the road are the remains of a circular con:
:struction measuring some 76 ft. [feet] by 90 ft. [feet] surrounded by a mound
now 24 ft. [feet] wide at base rising
but little above the level of the interior and
scarped on the exterior to a height of from
2 ft. [feet] to 4 ft. [feet]. The rampart is much rounded
& has probably been under cultivation at one
time.
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