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Situated in a meadow surrounded on three
sides by woodlands and separated by a deep
glen from the farm of Minsca to the S E. [South East]
are the remains of a fort. In form it is
circular measuring some 205 ft. [feet] in diameter.
Only on the Southern semicircle are the defences
preserved to any extent and consist of an
inner mound some 3 ft. [feet] in height above the
interior level, a trench some 30 ft. [feet] in width
with a scarp some 7'.8 ft. [feet] in height and were
highest a counterscarp of 5 ft. [feet]. On the N W. [North West] quadrant
the periphery is almost affaced and on the N. [North]
only the scarp from the summit level exists.
There has been an entrance from
the N E. [North East] and to the S. [South] of it the rampart makes
a bend outwards for some 15 ft. [feet]. On the S. [South] a
roadway leads into the trench flanked by a mound on either side, that on the left
continued along the counterscarp while that
on the right runs out across the trench where
there is an alteration in the general level of
the floor. The meaning of this roadway is
not apparent but it may have lead by the
trench to an entrance through the part of the defence
now demolished.

Hut circles Tinwall
On the moorland close by the hill road from

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