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evening.

22nd May 1909. A lovely warm morning. Ac:
:companied by Mr. & Mrs. Chisholm we ex:
:amined the broch which occupied a com:
:manding position on a ridge above the

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 54.

Langdale burn. It is much ruined and
has been built of large stones. The interior
diameter is about 31 ft. [feet]; the thickness of the walls
on the S. [South] side where there is a steep bank to the
burn about 16 to 17 ft. [feet] on the N. [North] side about 15 ft. [feet].
The walls in the interior where most exposed about
3 ft. [feet] high. The Entrance is to the West by a passage
15 ft. [feet] long and 3 ft. [feet] wide at the outside. The wall
of the passage on the S. [South] side is 3’.6” high on the other
side its measurements are unobtainable. 3 ft. [feet]
from the Interior on the S. [South] side of the passage is a
built check for a door. At Syre on the

[Margin] Unnoted.

E [East] side of the road and quite close to it is a
small fortified enclosure locally known as
General Leslie’s fort. It is circular, surrounded
on the W. [West] by a ditch 36 ft. [feet] across from top of
rampart to top of counterscarp and 3 ft. [feet] deep
from the outside level. The bank of the enclosure is
9 to 10 ft [feet] high on the W. [West] and has been sur:
:mounted by a dry built stone wall about
15 ft. [feet] thick. The height of the bank to the Int. [Interior] is about 5 ft. [feet]

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