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I was now in a bleak moor with a surface
much broken & full of peat holes part of the
Dunbeath deer forest.

Picts Ho'. [House] "The Wag" (25)
On the E [East] side of the Raffin burn about
2 1/4 ms. [miles] above its junction with the Dunbeath
Water at Achnaclyth on a grassy slope
beside a sheep stell are the ruins of two
or three galleried Houses. The place is
known as "The Wag" and is within the
Dunbeath deer forest. The plans of the
buildings are very indistinct. One of
them less confused than the others appears
to have been an oblong building some 47'
in length interiorly divided by a cross wall
at 20' from the inner end. Its width seems
to have been about 6' at the entrance at the outer end and
to have expanded to 8' or 9' at the opposite
extremity. The walls have been built
of large flat slabs & the buildings have
been of the galleried type.
Being doubtful of my position owing to these
objects being on the edge of the map & my
not having the adjoining sheet I feared
that this might be the P.H. [Picts House] noted further
E. [East] so struck off WNW. [West North West] for about a mile.
The walking was very bad. It was a

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