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Parish of Rhynie
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"any considerable height, seldom more than a few inches." (Noth shews that this statement is not quite accurate.) "and that the vitrification is generally very partial, from which I infer, only, that it was caused by the use of fires for other purposes, and not lighted for saving mortar & producing a concrete solid wall. But however these curious vitrifications were produced, all that class of strengths are such as a people in the infancy of the arts would have recourse to. There is little skill or ingenuity in their structure. We have a rude outer fence & no remains nor appearance of any building or habitations for the people who trusted to it in time of need."
Robert Dickson S.R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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