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is a segmental trench some 15 ft. [feet] in breadth at the
level of the counterscarp with a mound
thrown up to the outside. It has been excavated
on falling ground at the edge of the ridge
so that the scarp has an elevation of from 8 to
10 ft. [feet] It is not continued round to the S [South] end
of the ridge.
We called on Mr. Smith the farm steward at
Cowhill to take us to the earthwork. We saw
his collection of prehistoric objects which in:
:cluded some 6 or 8 discs of thin stone
about the size of a penny piece: one of them
showed a slight boring near the centre. These
objects were found on the farm of Townhead
near Thornhill. He possessed one good flat
axe of bronze and a fair number of chipped
flints found in the county some of them including
a nice leaf shaped arrow head of small size got
at Cowhill on the Avenue.

Castle Dykes Dumfries
The policies within the walls of this property
contain the remains of the peel or Castle
of Dumfries constructed by Edward I. as
well as the remains of a construction known
in his time as the setus castrum and re:
:cognised by George Neilson situated, I believe,
overlooking the river at the Western corner of the

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