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knoll immediately in rear of this circle
are 10 or 12 small cairns of the usual
type one or two of which appear to have
been opened. Leaving my bicycle in the
heather about 50 yds [yards] back from the road
I crossed the river by a most primitive
suspension bridge & walking about 100
yards along the river bank towards the loch
I found the stone with the hole in it to
which Mr. Mackay at Altnaharra had
directed my attention. It has within
6ft. [feet] of the stream about 400 yds. [yards] from the

[Margin] Evidently an old mill stone.

loch. It is an irregularly shaped slab with
a roundish tendency of 3' dia. [diameter] from N. [North] to S. [South] & E [East] to W [West]
and 5" thick. At 11 1/2" from its S. [South] end is
a circular hole 6" across and 3" deep.
The sides are vertical and the bottom is slightly
convex. From the upper edge a narrow channel
1" wide and 11 1/2" long has been chiselled to the
side of the stone. The stone is of the ordinary
grey rock of the district. About 1/2 m. [mile] W. [West]
at the E. [East] end of the wood on the S. [South] side of
the loch and on a short spit of land pro:
:jecting into it are the remains of a broch

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 34

marked "hut circle" on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey]. It has
been built of very large stones and has been

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