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about 2 miles N N W [North North West] of Moffat. It lies within a
blown down plantation covered with a perfect
forest of brackens broken over and matted together
wirh the storms of the past summer so that a
survey of it is quite impossible. The 25'' O. S. [Ordnance Survey]
Map shows it to be a circular enclosure with
a diameter of 160 ft. [feet] surrounded by a single
rampart.

14th Sept [September] 1912
Fort Hillhead K' [Kirkmichael] Juxta Par. [Parish]
This fort situated 1/2 mile to the N. [North] of Hillhead occupies an eminence at an
elevation of 850 feet or thereby over sea level
on the West side of a ravine which separates
it from the adjacent Park Hill, and commands
an extensive view over the surrounding hill
country and down Annandale. Its defences
consisting of a single story rampart rising
at most some 2 ft. [feet] above the interior level
and a trench in front where it crosses the summit to the S. [South] 15 ft. [feet] wide from crest
to crest enclose an oval area somewhat
pointed to the northward, with its longest
axis N. [North] and S. [South] measuring some 238 ft. [feet] by
195 ft. [feet]. Some 91 ft. [feet] from the N. [North] end a hollow
way leads up into the interior from the West
side some 8 ft. [feet] in breadth where it passes
through the defences, flanked on the North by a wall
which has passed inwards towards the centre
of the area whence it appears to have made

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