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features on the higher ground above the fort
and as they come into its immediate vicinity
they have been dug out and shaped so as
admirably to substitute and simulate artificial
lines. The entrance some 8 feet wide
has entered the outer hollow at its lower end
and probobly passing up it for some 50 yards
mounted to a little plateau at the South
end of the enceinte whence it lead to an
opening in the East end of the inner enclosure.

18 Sept [September] 1912.
Mr Johnstone tells me that in the Proceedings
of the Soc. [Society] of Antiquaries of London for 1857 or 8
there is a paper by a Mr Vere Irvine on the
excavation of a so called Roman cemetery near
Moffat.

Auchencass
I visited Auchencass to examine a stone
at the back of an ambray said by Mr. Watson
to be sculptured. I made a careful ex:
:amination of the stone and of the markings
on it by the light of a candle and am
quite satisfied that the markings do not
produce any definite design. They have the
appearance of scratches made by a plough
or the teeth of a harrow. I saw several other
stones about the castle with similar scratchings
upon them. The stone is a boulder from the upper

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