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hollow 36 ft. [feet] in width and 4 ft. [feet] deep below the crest,
in front of it. The lower half of the interior
appears to have been to some extent hollowed
by excavation. The entrance has been through
the centre of the lower end passing through
the outer rampart over the forecourt and
between two massive mounds for a distance of
52 ft, [feet]. These mounds are probably for the most
part natural formed by the excavation of the
ground on either side and on the top of
each is a hollow either the site of a hut or of
a massive parapet wall which has been torn out.
The width of the entrance is 6 ft. [feet]. In the N. [North] angle
there is another smaller entrance or postern, which, judging
from the inward curves of the base of the rampart
on either side, has originally been narrower than
it is at present. The crest of the rampart is stony
and has possibly been surmounted by a
parapet wall carried across the summit
of the mounds on either side of the main entrance
The interior has a fall of some 8 ft. [feet] from
back to front. (see O.S. [Ordnance Survey] plan)

Fort Dormont Rig Carterton.
This fort is situated on the crest of the Dormont
Rig at an elevation of 807 ft. [feet] above sea
level and about 1/2 m. [mile] E N E [East North East] of Carterton.
It occupies the N E. [North East] extremity of the Rig with

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