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Down the ravines flow, some 40 to 50 ft. [feet] below
the level of the fort, two burns which after their
confluence rush down the deeply wooded glen
to join the Garrel Burn a quarter of a mile away.
The fort has a triangular enceinte its base
being formed on the West by a massive rampart
and covering trench of unusual width and
depth its sides by the edges of the ravines.
The rampart takes a slightly curving
line from bank to bank across the promontary
rising steeply on the interior to a height of
8 ft. [feet] and scarped at an angle of 40o to the
floor of the trench in front. The trench, which
has no doubt been formed from natural
hollows falling away to the banks on either
side, has been deepened and fashioned
so that at the centre whence it declines
with increasing depth to N. [North] and S. [South] it has
a depth of some 15 ft. [feet] below the crest of the
scarp and some 12 ft. [feet] below that of the
counterscarp. Where at this central point
it is also narrowest, it has a breadth of
50 ft. [feet] and as it declines the edge
of the counter scarp recedes in an irregular
manner suggesting its natural formation.
From the higher ground to the West a hollow
leads down into the central point of the

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