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ruins. The interior is very free of debris and the wall
remains to a height of 7’.4”. There are no signs
of chambers in the wall nor of galleries, the building
is poorer than that of a broch, the stones not so
carefully selected and laid, and the numerous
interstices are packed with poor small angular frag:
:ments. At first glance it lacks the character of a
broch. I got back across the road just in time
before the tide turned for looking backward
a short time after I had left it was under water
for many feet of its length.
Across the bay nearly opposite the dun and
just to the S.E. [South East] of the sheep fanks is situated
an ancient graveyard. It is so covered with
small stones as to suggest at first that it is the
site of a “clachan” but closer inspection shows
that the graves have each been outlined and
covered with smallish stones probably to prevent
their desecration by wild animals. Is this not
a survival of the fashion of cairn burial?
No symbols or letters were observable on any of
the stones. The graveyard has been at one time
enclosed & roughly measures 78’ x 51’.
It was now 6 o’clock & I had to find my way
to the road, uncharted, and reach Drumbeg for
the night, 5 or 6 miles off. I crawled under a

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