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Dunviden about 3 miles up the river. Jocelyn ac:
:companied me as far as Loch Manaar. It was
bitterly cold and blowing a gale. Dunviden is an

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 51

absolute ruin and the faces of the walls are
not easily obtained. The internal diameter
has been about 30 ft. [feet]: the thickness of the walls
about 16 ft. [feet] and the breadth of the entrance
passage at the only point where obtainable
which was near the interior, 3’.5”. Almost the
only walling visible is a small portion two
courses in height on the N. [North] side. none is
visible in the interior. The remains of a
crofter settlement in the immediate neighbour:
:hood probably accounts for the dilapidated
state of the building. It occupies an
extremely strong position on the summit of
a knoll that rises for a height of 70 or 80 ft. [feet]
above the haugh which stretches from its base
to the Naver. Its sides are very steep except
to the E. [East] where the approach from the high
ground behind is more accessible. Considerable
pains have been taken to fortify this.
From
either side of the entrance a rampart runs

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