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[Opposite page Photograph of Gravestone]

woman with the figure of a child beneath all
standing on a scroll inscribed Memento Mori
on the centre of the stone flanked by a panel on
either side containing a skull and crossbones
and an hour glass and crossbones respectively,
is a representation of Adam and Eve on either
side of the tree of knowledge being tempted by the
serpent, while underneath runs the legend.
Here stands Adam & Eve tree and all
Which by his fall
We were made sinners all.
On the back are commemorated John Bell in
Givinbe who died October 25 1737 Aged 71, his wife
and members of his family.

31st July 1912
Fort Crawthat Cottage Tundergarth Par. [Parish]
On a projecting plateau at the base of a hill
in rear of Crawthat Cottage & on the side of the
road from Lockerbie to Langholm is a fort.
The plateau has a general elevation of from 30 ft. [feet]
to 40 ft. [feet] above the wet meadows to E [East] and W. [West] of it
and the roadway over what has also been marshy
ground on the S. [South]. to the N. [North] the hillside slopes
upward by an easy gradient. The fort, which
is approximately oval, measures interiorly 190 ft. [feet]
by 170 ft. [feet] its longest diameter being from N E. [North East] to
S W. [South West]. It is divided into two distinct divisions
by a trench 18 ft [feet] wide dug across the interior

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