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walls 12 ft. [feet]. About the top of the wall now
visible in the interior is a projecting ledge
about 10” wide on the upper surface. The slabs
which form it are an integral part of the
structure and the wall is thicker below them
than above. The outer wall is much ruined
and no other details are obtainable. A number of small cairns lie on the top of the cliff immediately to the W. [West] of the broch. Work
completed I fished for a little and got one
small sea trout. A native called after
dinner with a fragment of a beaker which
had been obtained from a cist discovered
by the ploughshare. The fragment was too
small to enable me to have any idea of the form
and the decoration was merely formed by dia:
:gonal lines in bands alternating in direction with a
slight ridge or moulding between. Later Mr.
Mackay, the schoolmaster, arrived with the
Book of the Mackay’s for me to see & stayed
until 10.30!

25 May. A falling glass and a most
unpromising morning – Cold & stormy.
Writing my notes up after breakfast we got
a trap round at 11.0 and set out for Skelpick.

[Margin] Of Brough 49a S. [Site] not a vestige remains.

Deeming it advisable to take the most distant
objects first, we left the trap at Skelpick Lodge
where the driving road ceased & set out for

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