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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Brough of Culswick Brough of Culswick
Brough of Culswick
Brough of Culswick
Brough of Culswick
Pict's Castle
Low's Tour
Mr James Garriock Reawick
Mr William D. E. Thomson Poor Inspr [inspector] Walls
John Thomson Esq. of Sitoul
Admiralty Chart
Johnston's Map
050.03 An ancient Pictish stronghold situate
on an eminence on the sea shore, about
¼ of a mile south of "Heolkifled" and nearly
¾ of a mile West of "Soterst".
"It is constructed of vast pieces of a very
hard kind of white and red granite, the pro-duce of the rock on which it stands; the stones
altogethr rude, but strongly and closely built;
the wall double, with a sort of spiral passage,
which one can creep through where it is not
choked up with ruins, No sort of cement
has been used in building, and, notwithstanding,
the walls are firm and entire, except where they
have been pulled down by men. The gallery
is covered with long lintel stones, which rest
on both walls; and the floor of the one is
the covering of the other. Round the whole
building, which is circular, is a ditch and
rampart. Its dimensions follow, together with
a plan, elevation, and section:- The diameter
withing the inner walls, 26 ft [feet] 6 in [inches]; whole
diameter at the foundation, 44 ft [feet]; thickness
of the inner wall, 3 ft [feet] 6 in [inches]; breadth of the
gallery
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Parish of Sandsting -- Shetland

Brough of Cuslwick
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