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crest of the scarp and some 4 feet below that of the counter:
:scarp has been dug across the hillock from side
to side in front of the rampart at this end. There
is no gangway across the trench which has
probably been covered by a bridge or draw-bridge.

Standing-stone Kirkbog.
Closeburn Par. [Parish] (unnoted)
On the crest of a broad backed ridge 1/4 m. [mile] East of
the farm of Kirkbog stands a single upright whin:
:stone boulder in the middle of a cultivated field.
It measures 4 ft. [feet] 3 ins. [inches] in height and about 1/2 of
its thickness has been broken off at no distant date.
There is nothing in the character of the stone nor in its
situation to contradict the statement in the History
of Closeburn that originally there was a stone
circle here.

Fort. Gateside
On a low plateau which rises some 8 or 10 ft. [feet] above
the surrounding level and which crowns the top
of a low steep slope rising from the road between
merkland and Lower Halliday Hill is the site
of a fort. The scarp to the edge of the plateau
may have been shaped to some extent but otherwise
there are no indications of defences. This plateau
is somewhat pear shaped measuring 205 ft. [feet] or thereby
by 170 ft. [feet]

Entrenchment
Cowhill Holyrood Par. [Parish]
On the N. [North] face of a ridge lying along the right bank of the
Nith, separated by a deep hollow from the plateau
on which are situated the ruins of Cowhill Tower

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