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circle of stones was composed of boulders
of moderate & various sizes with larger stones on
the exterior. There was no appearance of

[Margin] Unnoted.

building visible. A short distance to the
E. [East] lies another circle, overgrown with
turf, with about a dozen small round
cairns of about 15 ft. [feet] diameter lying

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 35.

around it. Loch Coire nam Feuran
is a narrow loch about half a mile in
length, having on its south side a picturesque
wood of old birch trees, in rear of which is a
fresh green hill, formerly cultivated, a:
:round the S. [South] & E. [East] side of which are the
foundations of numerous crofters dwellings &c.
On the N. [North] side of the loch at the top of the
bank, which rises from its shore are
also remains of crofts and in their
vicinity several small round cairns
of the usual size and appearance.
One of these near the W. [West] end, unnoted, is
circular about 2’ high, covered with heather,
16’ or 17’ in diameter and with an accumulation
of about 10” of peat on the top. I have pierced
the covering of many of these so-called
tumuli and find the stones almost always
at from 8” to 10” beneath the surface.

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