PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND.1900 |
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Page 62
... circle rented , bat lang stones are everywhere embedded in them , and there can be no docnt , as M Madlagan1 points out , that they are really stone wul- overgrown with turt . These walls being built on a steep slope were much hher on ...
... circle rented , bat lang stones are everywhere embedded in them , and there can be no docnt , as M Madlagan1 points out , that they are really stone wul- overgrown with turt . These walls being built on a steep slope were much hher on ...
Page 67
... circle round , but large stones are everywhere embedded in them , and there can be no doubt , as Miss Maclagan points out , that they are really stone walls overgrown with turf . These walls being built on a steep slope were much higher ...
... circle round , but large stones are everywhere embedded in them , and there can be no doubt , as Miss Maclagan points out , that they are really stone walls overgrown with turf . These walls being built on a steep slope were much higher ...
Page 70
... circle , 119 ft . in diameter inside the wall , which is from 14 to 15 ft . thick . It is almost entirely destroyed , but the outside and inside faces can be clearly seen to have been formed of un- dressed blocks , from 2 to 4 ft . long ...
... circle , 119 ft . in diameter inside the wall , which is from 14 to 15 ft . thick . It is almost entirely destroyed , but the outside and inside faces can be clearly seen to have been formed of un- dressed blocks , from 2 to 4 ft . long ...
Page 107
... circle of stones under the turf about a foot high , round the foot of the mound . This puzzling place did not seem to me to bear any resemblance to a fort . 2. Duncan's Camp , on Birnam Hill , 600 ft . above the sea , and 2 m . S.S.E. ...
... circle of stones under the turf about a foot high , round the foot of the mound . This puzzling place did not seem to me to bear any resemblance to a fort . 2. Duncan's Camp , on Birnam Hill , 600 ft . above the sea , and 2 m . S.S.E. ...
Page 108
... circles ( 2 ) , but with no clear signs of fortification . 3. Intrenchment is the name on the O.M. of a straight mound ... circle 100 ft , diameter as marked on the O.M. 7. Remains of Rampart is the title on the O.M. of a mound , only a ...
... circles ( 2 ) , but with no clear signs of fortification . 3. Intrenchment is the name on the O.M. of a straight mound ... circle 100 ft , diameter as marked on the O.M. 7. Remains of Rampart is the title on the O.M. of a mound , only a ...
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