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Enclosure Boreland
This enclosure lies about 1/2 mile to the South
of Hillhead on the East slope of the Kinnel
valley at an elevation of 600 ft. [feet] above sea
level commanded by rising ground to the
West and with a somewhat steep declivity to:
:wards the Kinnel water on the east. In form
it is oval lying with its longest axis N. [North] and S. [South]
and measures interiorly 170 ft. [feet] by 147 ft. [feet] and
has been surrounded by a stony mound
rising some 2 ft. [feet] to 3 ft. [feet] on the exterior and
dipping some 4 to 5 ft. [feet] to the floor level which
has been artficially lowered in the interior.
There is the usual stony outcrop on the crest
of the mound.

Johnston Par [Parish]
Lochwood Mote
This Mote commonly called "The Mount"
is situated in a wood of aged Oak trees.
and just to the North of the ruins of
Lochwood Castle and looks out to the
Eastward over the plain of Upper Annandale.
It is formed from a natural hillock
crowning a rising slope from the East
and mounting from a hollow on the
West. From the latter direction it has a
vertical elevation of some 22 ft. [feet] but from
its base on the E [East] along which runs the
roadway it rises to a height of 44 ft. [feet] or thereby.

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Bizzy- Moderator, Jane F Jamieson