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46 feet out the terrace has been formed by
digging with a breadth of 8 or 9 feet. There have
been two entrances one near the middle of
the East side opening into the lowest level,
flanked on its Northern side on the exterior by
a projecting tongue of rock on the top of
which are suggestions of stone work, the
other on the West side. To the right of the
latter on entering the rampart makes a
slight inward curve perhaps due to the
thickening of the wall for a distance of some 30 feet
the removal of stones from which sug:
:gests the site of a hut, or possibly a hut
has existed at the spot forming a guard
chamber.

27 Sept 1912
Wamphray Par [Parish] Laverhay
Note A carved armorial panel at Poldean
seen of on this day is described on p. 26.
On the Western slope of Laverhay Height
and on the South side of a hollow down
which flows the Thor Beck to join the
Wamphray Water lies a small rectangular
fort incomplete and seemingly never having
been finished. It is distant about 1/2 m. [mile]
N. [North] from Laverhay and lies at an elevation
of some 700 feet above sea level. It lies
on falling ground and is entirely overlooked

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