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the next 9 ft. [feet] and the next 16 ft. [feet] but it is very
doubtful if these are in situ. Work over – I put
up my rod and fished in Loch Craggie for
an hour but it is much too shallow to fish
from the bank. The road down from the
watershed to near Loch Laoghil Lodge is the
best I have found in Sutherland.

1st June 1909. Left Tongue at 7.0 a.m. to revisit
Strath-naver. It is a fearsome journey in a
motor laden with luggage as high as a corn
stack behind and down most appalling gradients.
I left the motor near Ach-na-bourin & walked
up the strath to Achargary – a place whose
name is different everytime it is spoken!

[Margin] Unnoted

Here on the S. [South] side of the Achargary burn about
20 yds [yards] from the top of the W. [West] bank of the Naver and
50 yds [yards] from the burn is a large circular cairn.
The top of it has been removed so as to expose
three slabs, apparently the end & sides of a
chamber, somewhat to the N. [North] of the centre
which does not appear to have been cleared out
The dia. [diameter] of the cairn from N. to S. [North to South] is about 77 ft. [feet]
from E. to W. [East to West] about 70 ft. [feet]. Length of chamber
from E. to W. [East to West] as far as exposed 7 ft. [feet] width about
5 ft. [feet]. One stone protrudes about 14” at the E [East]
end and the upper portion of one is visible on

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