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of a hut.

Hut circles &c.
On a flat stretch of moorland immediately
above the Glen Plantation to the S. [South] of Craig
Fell is a large group of small cairns
varying in diameter from 10' to 20' and
1' to 2' in height. There are also the remains
of hut circles but they are for the most part
very ill-defined. One hut measured from 6' to 7'
in interior diameter and had a wall 3'.6" in
thickness the outer face of which had been
marked with large boulders. The position of
the entrance appeared to have been from the SE. [South East].
To the N. [North] a wall seemed to run from it for a distance
of 21' with an indefinite foundation at its termination.

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There are observable in several directions the
remains of old walls. In one instance a
small circular enclosure of 5' in diameter
was observed in the thickness. To the N. [North]
of the upper end of the plantation the cairns
are large and numerous. The largest measured
24' x 18'. The hut circles have probably been
formed of turf with an irregular outline of boulders
set on end on either face. The turf has gone &
the lines of boulders are difficult to follow
especially as there is so much stone
naturally on the surface. To the NW. [North West] of

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