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from the higher ground to the East there
being a fall across the interior area of
1 in 7. The enclosure measuring some
109 feet from North to South by 106 feet from
East to West faces the glen of the Thor Beck
on the North from which it is distant some
50 feet at the North East angle and 20 feet at
the North West and has been surrounded
except as after noted by a flat bottomed
trench 24 feet wide from crest to crest,
3 feet deep at most below scarp and
counterscarp, with a mound on both
sides, that on the scarp some 3 feet high
above the interior and that on the counter:
:scarp 18 ins. [inches] to 2 feet high. On the East
the outer mound above a rather long
counterscarp is evidently secondary as
it crosses the trench at the North East
corner and similarly traverses it at the
North West angle: it has probably been
a feal dyke connected with a number
of others crossing the slope to the South
or passing up & down the hill. The
trench does not appear to have been fully dug
out on the East side and on the West
the defences are only continued for a

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