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the recess on the end of the hillock. The fort commands
an extensive prospect to the North at an elevation of [blank ]

Mouswald Fort (site) Burnhill
Burnhill is a slight natural eminence rising
to a height of some 15 ft. [feet] above the adjacent
ground - now partially occupied by a school and
cottages. Only at the North angle is there any
trace of handiwork where about halfway up
the bank there appears a small portion of
a terrace some 20 ft. [feet] in width.

Tumulus
Situated on Rockhall moor about 3/4 m. [mile] to the North
of Blountfield is a low circular stony mound
36 ft. [feet] in diameter overgrown with long heather
showing two or three small hollows in the interior
and one or two large stones on the circumference
It is probably the site of a cairn but there is
a possibility of it being a hut circle the
condition of the the heather however makes it
impossible to determine.
Some 30 yds. [yards] due North is a small oval
depression with a slight bank around it,
measuring some 16 ft. [feet] in diameter over all.
This has the appearance of a small hut circle
The following should be examined
Rockhall House the greater part of which
is of 17th cent. [century] date though much altered:
Tinwald House at the lodge of which there

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