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The fort is oval inform lying with its longest
axis North and South and measures interiorly
some 180 feet by 123 feet in diameter. It has
been surrounded in part apparently by a
wall and in part by a stony rampart the
region of the latter being where the foreground
is more assailable and here in addition
a trench has been excavated. The entrenched
area appears to have amounted to about
a quarter of the circumference viz. from
East to South. The trench which on the East side
has a breadth of some 30 ft. [feet] from crest to crest
and depth of 8 feet below the top of the scarp and
4 feet below that of the counterscarp with a mound to the outside at that
point lies at the base of the rampart, but
as it passes along the South end across
the hollow it makes somewhat of a
divergence possibly to contain a spring
or water hole for the ground is wet at this
place leaving a berm intervening between
it & the rampart. The rampart appears to
have borne a parapet wall some 6 ft. [feet] wide
Along the West and North sides the wall
which existed there appears to have had a
breadth of 10 feet - it seems to have been a
"rickle" construction. At the North end some

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