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wooded ravine 200 yds. [yards] to the W. [West] of Balgray Cleuch:
:heads runs a bank of earth and stone making a return
Northward at its Eastern extremity. The construction
is noted as a "fort" on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] but the remains are
fragmentary and the designation doubtful.

Fort Cumstone Burn.
Some 300 yds. [yards] to the W. [West] of Cumstone farm house on
the top of the steep right bank of the Cumstone Burn
some 25 ft. [feet] above the level of the stream is an
oval enclosure with its longest axis N [North] by W. [West] and
S [South] by E [East] and measuring interiorly 179 ft. [feet] by 157 ft. [feet].
It is surrounded by a rampart of earth & stone some 22 ft. [feet]
broad at base rising from 3 ft. [feet] to 5 ft. [feet] above
the level of the interior with a concentric
trench to the outside carried to the face of the bank at either end 22 ft. [feet] wide, 5 ft. [feet] deep below
the crest of the rampart and with a slight
counterscarp. The situation is at the base of the
Bow Hill and commands no prospect to
speak of.

Fort Hencastle Rig.
This fort is situated on the end of a low
saddlebacked ridge called the Hencastle Rig
which runs down from the E [East] expanding
somewhat suddenly with a circular plateau
at its Western extremity when it projects
into the haughland by the left bank of
the Corrie Water some 100 yds. [yards] distant from
the stream. A burn flows down a ravine

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