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keylike symbol or ornament. Between the free
end and the spiral is a single inclined line
which may have been connected with it. Immediately
below the spiral there is visible a semicircular
incised line and at the lower end of the stone
partially hidden by the Architrave of the
door is another and smaller spiral, with
certain indefinite markings springing from it
at one side. The stone is much worn and
the figures are now probably incomplete
The marks on the lower corner opposite to that
on which the spiral appears are natural
inequalities of the surface.
Returned to Overwells, Jedburgh to write
up notes &c. and on Monday 22nd brought
the family to Highfield, Lockerbie, which
I have taken till 2nd Sept. [September]

23rd July 1912
Applegirth Par [Parish] Fort Whitecastle Knowe
This fort occupies the summit of an oval
hillock known as the Whitecastle Knowe which
crowns the Western slope of the watershed
between the dales of the Dryfe and the Annan
1/2 m. [mile] to the W. [West] of the farm of Newbigging.
The hillock lies at an attitude of 734 ft. [feet] above
sea level and except for two adjacent
heights which obstruct the view to the S E. [South East]
and N N W. [North North West] it commands an extensive

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