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22'. A large number of pointed stones in the
adjacent walls seem to have been removed
from the circle.

Ascoraclete. Chapel of St. Bridget.
A structureless heap of stones is said to be
ruins of the chapel of St. Bridget. It is
situated about 100 yds. [yards] NE [North East] of Ascoraclete.
When we reached the car we had walked
about 14 ms. [miles] mostly over boggy moorland.
It was 8.0 'clock before I reached Thuster.

8th July 1910.
Worked till 5.0 p.m. writing up arrears
of notes

9th July 1910.
Mr. Mathieson of the Ord. [Ordnance] Survey
called in the forenoon in regard to the
antiquities marked on the Caithness maps.
After his departure at 12.0 I finished the
revisal of the maps for the Sutherland
Inventory & returned them to Southampton.

11th July. 1910.
Bicycled to Ulbster to visit the various
objects between Loch Watenan & Broughwhin.
I don't think I have previously met such a
variety of prehistoric constructions within
such a short distance of each other. A square
half mile includes a broch, two or three forts,
hut circles, a chambered cairn, stone cists,
& at least three settings of stone rows.
These are mostly to be found on the low

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