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from crest to crest. The entrance is situated
34 ft. [feet] distant from the E. [East] angle is 10 ft. [feet] wide
and passes on level ground over the ditch
flanked on either side by the return of the
counterscarp mound to the main rampart.
At some 20 ft. [feet] out from the S. [South] angle and extending
divergently past the entrance is a deep irregularity
excavated hollow probably used as a quarry
and possibly for procuring material for the
walling of the fort.

9th Augt. [August] 1912.
Bicycled to the Hewk in the morning where I
met by appointment Mr. Murchie a youth of the
dsitrict greatly interested in its antiquities. The
day turned one of the wettest I have been out on
this year.

Hutton & Corrie Par. [Parish] Mote of Hutton
The Mote of Hutton is situated in an elevated,
and unusually exposed position for a Mote
hill, about 1/4 m [mile] S. [South] by E. [East] of nether Hutton and
at an elevation of 718 ft. [feet] over sea level.
It rises on the West from the edge of a deep
natural ravine the bottom of which lies some
30 ft. [feet] below the base of the hillock, to a hight
of about 23 ft. [feet] in form a truncated cone
constructed on a knoll of rock surrounded
at base by a trench which when cut through
higher ground on the [blank] measures some 28 ft. [feet] in

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