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about 150 yds. [yards] S. [South] of the road is a small group of four
or five cairns of the usual sort.
On the moor to the N. [North] of Altass Mor and directly
to the W. [West] of the cultivated fields are a considerable
number of small cairns and the remains of a
hut circle.
Proceeding N. [North] for about a mile & half on the S.W. [South West] slope
of the Doir a' Chatha about the 700 ft. [feet] level and
just above the enclosed land is a large
group of cairns and hut circles. Just above
the most E. [East] of the crofts is a circle of the usual
type with an entrance SE. [South East] overgrown with heather.
Near the upper side of the enclosed piece of moor:
:land directly behind the Eastmost croft is a
hut circle measuring interiorly 23' x (about) 27'.
The bank at the entrance has gone & only one of the
stones of the outside end remains at 32' from back
of circle. 8 cairns or so lie around.
About 40' S.E [South East] of the entrance to the circle and
with its convex side towards it is a crescentic
mound 12' in thickness at centre, 30' between the
points of the crescent and with a concavity
of 10'.
Some 30' N. [North] of the N.W. [North West] end of the enclosure
behind the Eastmost croft is a mounded con:
:struction covered over with heather. It is oval

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