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Transcriber's notes

line 10 - missing shield charge is 'fess' (see the 'Seventh Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries' (1920)).

line 14 - missing distance is 130 yards (see the 'Seventh Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries' (1920)).

Transcription

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gainst all assaults from first unto the last
Asisted me I gott not a wrong cast
His precious truth fragrant tho was to me
From first to last as I live soe I dy
Once more Il live, and never dy again
And sing his praise in a triumphant strain.

On the N. [North] wall of the burial enclosure of the
family of Charteris of Amisfield is a panel dated
1618 bearing a shield charged with a [blank]
On the dexter side the letters 2 I C on sinister
D M F.

[Sketch inserted here]

Mote Tinwald.
Situated on gently rising ground some [blank] yds. [yards]
to the S. [South] of the parish church of Tinwald with
an extensive prospect over Nithsdale stands
the mote of Tinwald. A truncated cone, some
9 to 10 ft. [feet] in elevation with an oval summit
measuring 62 ft. [feet] by 36 ft [feet]. The slope of the mound
is by no means steep and the whole con:
:struction has probably been reduced by culti:
:vation. It is probably a natural gravel hillock
the levelled summit being the only really
significant feature remaining.

Torthorwald
Garrs Hill Site.
Around the summit of the Garrs Hill
some 3/4 m. [mile] W N W. [West North West] of the parish church is the

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