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lower by 2 or 3 ft. [feet] than the surrounding ground
and is now wet and overgrown with rushes.
The entrance has been from the East: now some
12 ft [feet] wide and one large stone sunk firmly
in the ground in an upright position still stands
in situ on the N. [North] side. - This has been a fine day at last
& I was out in a car until 7.0 p.m.

22nd Augt. [August] 1912
Tinwald Par. [Parish] Fort Barros Hill

Train to Shieldhill with J. & S. taking our bicycles.
Crowning the highest point of the summit of
Barros Hill, a prominent height which rises to an
altitude of 713 ft.[feet] over sea level, about 1 1/2 m. [miles] to the
N N E [North North East] of Tinwald Church is a well preserved
fort.

The hill
The hill rises by a steep gradient from
all sides except the S [South], where below the actual
summit the slope upwards is long & gradual,
while the summit tends away to E. [East] and W. [West] in irregular hillocks & hollows
commanding a most extensive panorama
over Nithsdale, the upper reaches of Annan:
:dale and across the hills that bound the
Western side of the latter dale, to
where the table topped Birrinswark swells
up on the horizon on the SE. [South East] The fort is
oval in form lying with its longest axis
N E [North East] and S W [South West] measuring across the interior
area 274 ft. [feet] by 210 ft.[feet] and has been surrounded
by a parapet mound now only discernible a
few inches in height on the N. [North]; a steep scarp
with an average height of 10 ft. [feet] all around

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