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most of the cairns is a hut circle entering
[Sketch inserted here]

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 7.

from the SE. [South East] measuring
interiorly 31' x 40', and
containing in the interior
a smaller circle abutting
on the S. [South] side and entering
from the main entrance
measuring 17' x 21', with
bank 3'.6" thick. There
appears to have been a passage into the back
of the main enclosure between the ends of the
two circles on the E. [East]. The bank of the main enclosure
is 5'.6" thick in the circumference and 9' thick
on S. [South] side of entrance on the E [East] side of the
entrance it projects SE [South East] 6' beyond the opposite
side. The entrance passage is 6' wide in the
interior - that between the two banks considerably
less & seemingly about 3'. In the middle of the
circumference at the back is a large flat
stone about 2'.6" high set with its face across the bank and
there are indications of a narrow entrance
into the back enclosure to the E. [East] of it. The
bank on the N. [North] of the circle is still about 2' high

[Margin] Unnoted

On the N. [North] slope of a low hill to the E. [East] of Torbuie
is a large group of small cairns.
Some 100 yds [yards] NE. [North East] of it are the remains of a

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