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rowed me over to Oldany island to examine
an ancient burial ground where he said one
grave was marked with a peculiar stone like a
basin with letters cut on it. This at once suggested
to me the font, so arrived at the island I struck
away inland to where my map showed the
graveyard to be. My map was wrong and the
mistake added much to my labours. Through
the centre of the island there runs a vale or
“flow”. and on the W. [West] side of that, rather nearer
the N. [North] end than the centre, and on the top of a
low spur of the hill is the graveyard. At the
back of it against the hill are the ruins of a
rude structure outlined with great slabs of
rock set on end, (the largest 3’ high - 3’ broad and
1’ thick.) It is roughly rectangular & lies almost
N. and S. [North and South] measuring internally about 12’ x 10’ with
an entrance to the E. [East]. Attached to it is a smaller
building about 13’ long x 8’ wide with a circular
building probably an oven in the N.E. [North East] corner
about 3 ft. [feet] high & 5 ft. [feet] dia. [diameter]. The graves here
have all been outlined with flat stones &
some more placed on top of them. As the
building lies N. & S. [North & South] it has probably been only a
croft, but why in the graveyard. I was nearly
two hours away from the boat but failed

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