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that, in that direction the outer defences have been
eliminated. The central area is an oval en:
:closure measuring some 160' by 140' surrounded
by a strony rampart where the ground is
low to the outside, and where the level rises
by a steep gradient towards it on the Northern
half, by a rampart slighter in degree with a
considerable excavation forming a scarp
on the interior. Where best preserved this
rampart has a breadth at base o 19' and
a height of about 5'. The interior level rises
towards a rocky eminence on the W. [West] along
the outer edge of which the rampart is continued.
There has been a wide entrance into the enceinte
from the S. [South] - the gap now measuring 20' across -
opening onto the lowest part of the interior area.
The top of the rocky eminence has been hollowed
out to a depth of from 4' to 5' so that its
summit is a concavity which measures
some 56' by 46' in diameter. open towards
the lower level of the interior on the S. [South]. Within
this hollow are several ridges on the turf
marking the foundations of structures and
probably produced by the cutting away of the
rock on either side, as noticable at Castle O'er. Enclosing
this inner enceinte is an outer line of defence

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