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Camp continued:-

"but as a military post this is certainly the least defensible I have met with being completely commanded within easy arrow flight by the high grounds which encircles it on the south and east. During the quarrying operations referred to, a small cairn was taken down, and beneath it two rude stone cists were found. One of these contained an urn in capital presentation about half full of ashes and calcined bones. It is of a yellow earthenware very slightly if at all glazed, and measures six inches in height, five in diameter at the bulge, and three at the bottom. The same pattern as at the bulge repeated inside the top to a depth of half an inch.. In the same cist if not within the urn, were also found two spear heads and a bracelet of bronze; the latter especially being a splendid specimen of verd antique. The exterior surface is round, the interior flattened. Its internal diameter is two and three-eighths inches; the external being two and seven-eighths. These reliques are preserved by Mr. Sim of Cultermains." (On the ancient Camps of the Upper War of Lanarkshire by G.V. Irving Esqr. F.A.S)