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with an interior diameter of 30', bank 4'
thick, and entrance from the E. [East].

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 11.

At Airdens about 150 yds. [yards] N. [North] of the targets
is a group of about 18 small cairns.
Several of them measure about 18' in diameter
one is from 4' to 5' high and 24' in diameter

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 10.

Carn an Duin. On the top of a slight
eminence at the SW. [South West] end of Creagan
Reamhar are the remains of what appears
to have been a cairn. It has to a great
extent been removed but appears to
have measured 64' from N. to S. [North to South] by 77'
from E to W. [East to West]. Two lines of large stones
set point upwards appear in the
construction, one marking the exterior limit
of the cairn, the other some 12' within it
on the N. [North] 13' on the E. [East], 5' on the S. [South] and
16' on the W. [West]. The position in which the
stones are placed weighs against the
idea that this has been a broch which
the name suggests. It has been so
pillaged that its true character is difficult
to determine.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 9.

To the E [East] of Garbh Leathad is a small
group of cairn like constructions
of from 18' to 20' in diameter which

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Jane F Jamieson