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[Opposite page sketch/drawing of grave slab & photograph inserted - Stone built into burial vault in Middlebie Churchyard]

the letters are quite plain. HEAR LE'TH
ELDAVD OVTOIO DAVIS. 1621

Middlebie Pennershaugh's Graveyard.
On the N. [North] side of Pennershaughs graveyard
situated on the Carlisle road about 1 mile
to the E. [East] of Ecclefechan, there lies close to the
edge of a steep bank a grave slab 6'-3'' in
length by 1 ft. [foot] 6 ins.[inches] in breadth, slightly diminishing
to the foot, and 9 ins [inches] in thickness, on the
top of which is incised a double armed cross
1ft [foot] 1 ins. [inches] in length crossed horizontally by arms 5 in. [inch] and
4 ins. [inches] in length: and in the centre of the stone a
plough share and pruning hook. The stone
bears no date nor inscription.

Birrens Roman Fort ? Fort Stockbridgehill
The description of this must be abridged
from the account of the excavations.
Situated on the open moorland about ½ m. [mile] to the W. [West] side
of the Darlawhill Grain and 3/4 m. [mile] E N E.[East North East] of Stock:
:bridge hill is a small oblong
enclosure lying with its longest axis E. [East] by N. [North]
and W. [West] by S.[South] measuring some 126 ft. [feet] by 106 ft. [feet]
surrounded by a slight mound formed
from the upcast of a narrow and shallow
trench measuring some 18 ft.[feet] in breadth and
not more than 3 ft. [feet] in depth below the scarp and
2 ft. [feet] below the counterscarp. The line of the
scarp is not very regular and along the E. [East] side

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