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Lochbank, near Lochmaben station, and it is in the same state of 
preservation. ]ts ramparts can be but little altered from the time 
in which it ceased to be occupied. 
I left the camp and clump of trees at the south edge. Here 
the ground ceases to rise, and becomes a flat table-Jand, and the 
view it gives commands the plain beneath. I now walked due 
south over the field for another clump of fir-trees about two hundred 
yards away. In its centre I found traces, but not very marked, of 
the fort given in the Ordnance map. It is very much smaller in 
size than the camp I had left, but some of the trees on its site had 
fallen, and may conceal much of what yet remains of it. The 
trees, too, are dense, and gloom reigned beneath them. As I came 
out of them, at the south edge of the clump, I found I was close 
upon the farm-house of Castlehill. The good people of the house 
were going about the stack-yard, and they readily shewed me the 
wood in which the camp I had still to visit was to be found. It 
was about five hundred yards due east from Castlehill. On the 
way I crossed an old unmacadamised road, that I afterwards dis- 
covered connected itself with a road that in two miles’ walk led 
straight into Lockerbie. It is the road I should have taken had I 
come from Lockerbie. 
The camp i was seeking I found, like the one [ first visited, 
to be upon a hill side, and to be in a similar condition of excelleut 
preservation. The raiwparts (inner and outer) and the ditch were 
there, and the size, too, was much the same, only instead of a circle 
its form was that of a somewhat elongated ellipse. It was also 
enclosed trom the surrounding field by a thorn hedge, and the trees 
were close together, and shut out the rays of the sun, and gave the 
whole a wild and weird-like look, as I walked round upon its 
ramparts and through its centre. The long ends of the ellipse are 
north and south. On its east side the hill slopes down into the valley, 
and the rampart looks high and more formidable to scale than on 
the other sides of the fort, and the stones, of which it seems mainly 
formed, are easily seen. The ground outside of the enclosing hedge 
has been all under the plough, which may have obliterated other 
outworks, did they ever exist ; but I came away with a deep im- 
pression that time had made little change upon the camp or fort 
as a whole. 
On Monday, 23rd September, I again set out upon my travels. 
I mention the time because, at the close of my journey, I found I 
