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grasping a lighted candle, a note book &
prostrate with a pencil between my teeth
was none too pleasant a task – nor were
the great stones hanging down through the
gap in the passage roof that a
touch might dislodge pleasant objects
to gaze at long! The chamber on the
left I did not enter. It is small and
low but a hole in the back suggests a
connection with something beyond.
Directly opposite the entrance the top of
the stairway is visible and the stair itself
probably exists for 12’ or 14’ down but is
covered with debris to within 3 ft. [feet] of the roof.
It apparently enters from the wall in the interior to the
left of the entrance. The Masonry of the
broch is good. It is built of sandstone which
has a good horizontal cleavage in bed.
There are no remains whatever of the
Dun at the N. [North] end of the bay.
There appeared to be two or three small tumuli
in the cultivated ground to the S.E. [South East] but I
omitted to look where the map indicates
them. I must ask Mr. McIvor the school:
:master to do this. It was 7 o’clock
before I started off, very tired, for Lochinver

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