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sea level and about 1 1/4 m. [mile] above Westwater. It
lies on a sloping hill face with the ground rising
immediately behind it to the N E. [North East]. On plan it is
circular measuring some 257 ' by 261 ', surrounded
by a stony mound with a slight trench to the
outside. Some 52 ft. [feet] within the mound lies an
inner concentric rounded rampart of low
elevation but scarped on the inner side to a
depth of 7 ' by the excavation of the interior
hollow which measures approximately about
150 ft. [feet] in diameter, the regular line of its circle
is broken, however, on the N W. [North West] where it makes a
bend inwards so as to emclose a circular
hollow between it and the entrance which
has been from the W. [West] into the lower part of
the enceinte. Adjacent to this hollow and
to the N. E. [North East] of it is another fashioned by
excavation between the outer and inner
moounds.The buildings of a large sheep -
fold in the interior obscure any other details.

Macrieholm Knowe Enclosure. Canonbie Par [Parish]
Cut through by the old road which traversing
the moorland leads from Old Irvine to
Solway bank is a circular enclosure
measuring some 120 ft. [feet] in daimeter
surrounded by a trench some 20 ft. [feet] wide
and 3 ft. [feet] deep without any conspicuous mound
or scarp or counterscarp though on the N W. [North West]