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Two or three other enclosures near over:
:grown with heather and fern appear
to be of similar character.
[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 44.
About 1/2 m. [mile] S. [South] of Strathy church on
slope of the hillside about 100'
above the level of the river is a group
of hut circles and small cairns
At the extreme S. [South] end of the group opposite
the most Southerly of the Strathy crofts
across the valley and about 1/4 m. [mile] back
[Sketch inserted]
from the river is a hut
circle of three separate
compartments, two in line
E and W [East and West] and the third along
side that at the E. [East]. The most
westerly measures interiorly
16' x 12", that to the E. [East] of it 14'
x 10, and that to the S. [South] 14' x 9.
The entrance seems to have
been by a curving passage
near the centre of the S [South] side. The thickness
of the enclosing wall seems to have
been about 9' around the W. [West] chamber and
5' round the others. There is much stone
from the walls lying in the interior and
the inner face is lined with flat sided
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Alison James- Moderator, Jane F Jamieson
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