226 Mr. Copland’s Account of 
_ fence, and wnich mutt have been intended to pre- 
ferve the fepulture from being affected with moifture. 
_ It may not bei improper to remark, that the earth 
feemed to have retained its original height from 
the eaft fide of the triangle to near the eaft corner, 
where there appeared fomething like the remains 
of a hearth, in a circular form, but which could 
not be with certainty afcertained; as many of the 
ftenes had been carried away at. a former period 
from that part. See F on the ground plan. 
Since my refolution to publifh an account of the 
above, I have been informed of feveral inclofures 
in this country of a fimilar nature, particularly one 
about four miles fouth-eaft of Dumfries, in the 
parifh of Caerlaverock, and two more between Drum- 
Jenerig and Sanquhar, at no great diftance from 
the river Nith. The firft ] examined lately. It 
is fituated in the midft of a piece of ground of the 
fame height for a mile all round, except on the 
north-eaft fide, where there isa declivity down to 
Locher Mofs. It is a fence of the fame nature and 
breadth with that above defcribed, only a little 
more of earth mixed through the round ftones: it 
encompaffes a portion of ground that is at prefent 
ploughed up, of an exact elliptical figure, the largeft 
diameter being an hundred and fifty-fix feet by an 
hundred and twenty-fix broad, with two branches 
in the enclofure, one on the north-eaft, which 
feems to have been the chief entrance, and another 
fmaller on the fouth- eaft end. There is a continued 
_ equal 
