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lower than the edges and there is no admixture
of earth. The diameters are from 14'-16'
and the heaps of stones from 30' to 40' apart.
There are no signs of connecting walls.
I observed one built into a bank as at
Dalhalvaig. A few cairn like mounds
of similar size, overgrown & conical
existed among the ruins.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 45.

About 1 m. [mile] above Strathy Church on
the W. [West] bank of the Strathy River on the
flat haugh to the N [North] of the influx of the
Allt Dail Teine are a number of circular
enclosures and cairn-like constructions
some with a depression in the centre
like those at Dalhalvaig and others
conical. Near where the Allt Dail
Teine flows into the Strathy is a mound
some 18' in diameter and 3' to 4' high, showing
no depression on the top, from which a
wall or bank runs towards the river
and also in the opposite direction up
the bank of the burn. Some 50' NW. [North West] is
a small circular enclosure of about
12' interior diameter and some 50' W [West] of
it again a larger one with entrance
from the E. [East], having an interior diameter

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