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by a stony rampart some 3 feet high on
the interior with a trench in front not now
continuously recognisable in the wet ground
about the North angle but very distinct in
the neighbourhood of the East corner where
it measures 27 ft. [feet] in breadth and 5 feet and
3 feet in depth below scarp and counterscarp
respectively. Along the North West it has a
breadth of 21 feet and depth as above of
3 ft. [feet] and 4 feet respectively. There is a gap
some 9 ft [feet] broad in the North West face
about 18 ft. [feet] in from the angle by the burn
but the large stones cropping out on the
roadway suggest that it is not an original
entrance. Just within the rampart on the
East side are the remains of a stony mound
or cairn some 20 ft. [feet] in diameter which
appears to have been excavated. Note.
In a communication to the Pro. Soc. Antiq.
Scot. [Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland] 1886 the writer refers to this mound as
a circular building partially destroyed
with comparatively thin walls. Its character
is not now apparent on superficial ex:
:amination.

Cairn supposed Rosetta
On the South side of the road from
Egypt to Rosetta about ? 300 yds [yards] East of

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