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its original outline can only be conjectured but
it appears to have been circular with a diameter
of about 50 ft. [feet]. It is still 6 to 7 feet in height.
Several large flat stones are exposed lying
unevenly about the top but there is no sign
of the chamber or cist having been opened.
As the cairns on Ben Garve turned out to
be only small surveyors’ cairns and evidently
of no account I did not visit them so had
leisure to fish a little in the Traligill burn
where I caught a few small trout but my
zest for fishing has suffered from the pursuit
of ancient monuments. The rock here is
limestone and the burn has cut its way
through deep gorges and comes over some
fine falls. The Dryas Octopetala is in full
flower over the rocks; I have seen it at Bettyhill,
Durness and here & there by the roadside.
The globe flowers are coming out in the
meadows and “the wild marsh marygolds
flame like fire” as I have never seen them
elsewhere in Scotland. In visiting the
ruins of Calda this morning I discovered
a brown owl asleep at the level of my head
& could not risist taking his photo at
close quarters, the last tenant of the old house.

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