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upwards with the interior flanked in its course
by outcropping benches of rock.

Enclosure
On the Moorland about half a mile to the
West South West of the summit of Beattock
Hill and some 80 yards Eastward of the
March dyke which divides Beattock Hill
from Earshaig ^ and occupying no particularly defensible position, ^ is a small oval enclosure
placed with its longest axis North & South.
Measuring interiorly some 79 ft. [feet] by 59 ft. [feet]
and surrounded by a stone wall some
6 ft. [feet] in thickness at base but now reduced
to its foundations. On the West side, at
the base of an outcropping rock which
rises to a height of some 4 feet, a small
boatshaped enclosure has been formed by
a curving wall resting on the inner side
of the ^ main wall, with a length of 17 ft. [feet] and greatest
breadth of 9ft. [feet] Partially cut into by the
South end of this compartment & also
built against the main wall is another
and circular enclosure measuring intern:
:orly some 25 ft. [feet] in diameter. The main
enclosure has been entered from the E. [East]
the the inner circle from the same direction:
: no entrance is now apparent into the
compartment at the base of the rock.

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