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is a fine coat of arms I am told; forts on Hettand
Hill 1/4 m. [mile] to the North of Morison House, and
Panteth Hill about 1/4 m. [mile] NNE [North North East] of Mouswald Manse,
respectively: both indicated on my 1" map. The
above information supplied by Mr Reid, of Mouswald
Place. The same authority believes that there
is a mote about 1/2 m. [mile] North by East of Ryemuir,
Lochmaben Parish close to the road from
Torthorwald.

5 Oct. [Octover] 1912.
Lochmaben Par [Parish] Rockhall Mote
The mote of Rockhall situated within a wood
about 1/4 mile to the North of Rockhallhead
occupies a strongly defensible position
at the edge of a bank which falls away
on the West and North West with steep declivity
for 80 feet or thereby. To Eastward a tolerably
level stretch of ground of some 100 yards
intervenes between the site and rising
slopes of the moorland beyond. The mote is in form a truncated cone formed
on a slight eminence of rock, with an
altitude of 20 feet on the West and 15 feet on
the East and completely surrounded at
base by trench, cut through rock, 20 to 22
feet in width at the level of the crest
of counterscarp and varying in
depth from 4 to 5 feet. The summit

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