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side is continued as a line of lower mounds or walls from 6 to 7 

 feet thick; the east horn whereof touches the largest of the sub- 

 sidiary buildings to be afterwards mentioned, and both it and 

 the other horn meet the north rampart. The whole combined 

 form an inner enclosure in which the main building, or Edin's 

 Hall, is situated. In the east horn or wall and nearly in a con- 

 tinuation of the lines of the main entrance-passage first described, 

 is the appearance of one side of a doorway, but it is too indis- 

 tinct to speak of with certainty. On the sides of the cuttings 

 through the ramparts, and on the face of the traverse are stones 

 which may be the remains of building. There is another open- 

 ing through the ramparts near the middle of the south side, 

 formed by the ramparts being lowered and the ditches somewhat 

 filled up. It has a much more modern appearance than that on 

 the south west, and has no traverse or defence as it has ; but it 

 had existed at the time Mr Murray visited the place in 1764, it 

 being mentioned by him. From this south-west entrance, a wall 

 or mound, without trenches, of from 180 to 200 yards in length, 

 and more than 5 feet in thickness, runs first westward and then 

 north, into the ravine or hollow, which bounds the terrace or 

 shoulder on that side. Many of the large stones remain on each 

 side of it. 



Situated in the north-west quarter of the large enclosure or 

 camp, and within the smaller enclosure which has been described, 

 is the building of Edin's Hall. Until the excavations were 

 made several years ago, it might almost have been mistaken for 

 a huge cairn. The form, however, of the principal features of 

 the building could be traced ; though the work on the south-east 

 side was so covered up and overgrown as to be almost indis- 

 tinguishable from the natural surface, and in excavating the in- 

 terior most of the debris was carted over it without causing any 

 injury. It now shows from 2 to 3 feet high at this place. 



The building is circular, and is about 55 feet in internal and 

 92 feet in external diameter. The external circumference is 

 nearly a true circle, the diameter being from — 



N. to S. - - 92i feet. 



E. to W. - - 90 „ 



S.E. to N.W. 92i „ 



S.W. to N.E. 92 ,, 

 The interior circumference diverges very considerably from a 



