Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . the southfront, 86 feet in length, with a portion of the east wall, 24 feet inlength. Thickness of walls 3 feet. The south wall is about 10 feethigh. See Carrs Coldingham, p. 162. Dovecot.—A large dovecot, with a tiled roof and crow-step gables,stands in the south-east corner of the market garden at is built of large blocks of dressed sandstone, and its walls aresome 3 feet in thickness. , Ber., xvii. Visited 6th August 1908. Defensive Construction. 40. Fort, Ninewelh.—The remains of thi
Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . the southfront, 86 feet in length, with a portion of the east wall, 24 feet inlength. Thickness of walls 3 feet. The south wall is about 10 feethigh. See Carrs Coldingham, p. 162. Dovecot.—A large dovecot, with a tiled roof and crow-step gables,stands in the south-east corner of the market garden at is built of large blocks of dressed sandstone, and its walls aresome 3 feet in thickness. , Ber., xvii. Visited 6th August 1908. Defensive Construction. 40. Fort, Ninewelh.—The remains of this fort (fig. 16) are situatedsome 150 feet south of the south lodge of Ninewells on the edge of a * This do while there is light. inventory of monuments, etc., in county of berwick. 21 Parish of Chirnside. steep and partly precipitous bank, some 80 feet above the Whitadder,and at an elevation of some 220 feet over sea-level. It appears to havebeen a crescentic fort of which two ramparts are traceable for a partof their course, extending from the edge of the bank at the north. 100 0 100 200 4fCt| Fig. 16.—Fort, Ninewells (No. 40). end of the enceinte, and beyond the public road, reappearing for adistance of some 280 feet in a grass park and becoming obliteratedbefore recrossing the road. The estimated chord of the crescent hasbeen some 452 feet, and its depth at centre 174 feet. , Ber., xvii. NW. (unnoted). Visited May 1911. Sepulchral Construction. 41. Cairn {supposed), Edington.—In the meadow near the south-west corner of the market-garden at Edington is a mound about3 feet in height, oval in outline, measuring 43 feet in length by27 feet in breadth, at the edge of which a cist was discovered manyyears ago. See Ber. Nat. Club, 1873-75, p. 24. , Ber., xvii. NE. Visited 6th August 1908. 22 historical monuments (scotland) commission. Parish of Chirnside. Miscellaneous. 42. Dovecot near Chirnside Church.—In the corner of a cottagegarden about 170 yards north
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