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is the centre of a crescentic setting of large flat
slabs, rounded on the top, four in number set with
their broad faces towards the front of the cairn.
The stones are four in number, 3 of them measuring
from 3'.6" to 4'.6" across, (the fourth being somewhat
smaller) by about 14" thick and projecting from 1'.6"
to 2" above the cairn. They are set 2 on either
side of the position of the entrance passage but
it is possible that there may originally have been
more as the outer stone on the NW [North West] is much further
from the edge than that on the NE. [North East]. The centre pair
are 6'.6" apart and the extreme points of the outer
stones 22' apart. The chamber is roughly rectang:
:ular 12'.9" long, and has been divided
by partition stones, (one only of which remains, on
the W [West] side) at 6' from the back wall forming two
compartments, the inner or Southmost measuring
6' x 5'.2" in breadth, and the outer 4'.11" long by
4'.2" broad. The partition stone projects 2'.1" into
the interior is 2'.1" high and 1'.5" thick. At the N. [North] end
of the chamber is a lintel 3'.4" long 2' broad
and 9" thick supported on the single stones 1'.10"
high and covering an entrance 2'.10" wide.
The main axis of the back compartment is NNE. [North North East] and
SSW. [South South West] but the sides of the outer compartment have
been inclined so as to give it a northerly direction.

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