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its color being dark, theirs light and
bare, The first mentioned track
produced, on the ground, in the
direction of Blackdikes (I produced
this on the ground for a good
base to build from, the shortness of
it not admitting that to be accurately
done on the paper) till it approaches
the Parish boundary, is just the
breadth stated by General Roy,
and about 12 chains south east
the parish boundary would form
a side of the Camp, which
Chalmers, in Caledonia Romana,
states it to have done, In the
extract from Roy's work, there
was no mention made of the
Camp's length.
The Hollow shewn in pencil on
trace is, in all probability, the
site of the pool shewn by Roy,
as there has evidently, at one

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time, been water in it, and it
seems to have been one of a
Chain of pools, or moss holes,
running North easterly and South
westerly.
Battledikes was the name of the
field in which the latest
removed portion of the
rampart stood.
I have again shewn the trace
to Mr Carnegie Arbuthnot, who
says, that, to the best of his
knowledge, the dots shewn by
me resemble in shape, and are
apparently in the position of
the portion of the rampart which
his father removed, but beyond
that he can give me no in-
formation,

Thomas Black,
L. Corpl. R.E [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]

Lt. [Lieutenant] Colonel Bayly
R.E. [Royal Engineers]