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trench also probably a natural feature utilised
as a road & from the end of it a narrow track
leads obliquely across the scarp and
past the end of the rampart into the
interior. Directly behind the rampart at its
highest point are the foundations some 4 ft. [feet] broad of an oblong
structure with rounded angles, formed of earth
and boulders measuring interiorly 25 ft. [feet] by 13 ft. [feet]
with an entrance in the East wall. The sides
of the fort do not seem to have borne any ram:
:part above the steep banks, the sides of both
ravines opposite being also very steep. The
interior from the base of the rampart to the
point, bisectionally measures 180 ft. [feet]
while the base behind the rampart
has a length of 150 ft. [feet] where it is comparatively
level and to the extreme edge of the steepest
slope on the N. [North] side 180 ft [feet]. The sides of the
glens are all richly wooded with Oak
and birch and over the tree tops the
fort looks out across Annandale and
a great extent of rich champaign.

Garvald Church
On our way to Wallace's House we had
a look through the old churchyard but
found no stones worth noting for the
Inventory One showed a genealogical
record, however, in a tabulated form new to

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