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first gallery. The height of the wall exposed on
the best preserved portion of the exterior is
11 ft. [feet] and it is not much less at any point.
Internally the wall rises only about 4 ft. [feet] above the
debris. At the highest point the wall is 13’.6”
thick. The entrance is towards the E. [East] through
a passage, now almost filled up with stones, 2’.6”
wide towards the outside, and 3’ wide at
10’ inwards. There has been a guard chamber
on the right the entrance to which is blocked
with fallen stones. The doorchecks are not
visible. The covering stones remain in
situ over the greater part of the entrance
passage. The interior diameter is 31 feet. A stone wall flanks the broch
at 15 ft. [feet] distant towards the shore side
and swings round towards the broch
near the entrance where the mass of
fallen stones conceals its connection.
This wall has been pierced with a doorway
3 ft. [feet] wide at the end of the causeway, the
jambs of which remain in position.

[Margin] Unnoted.

On the top of a knoll about 200 yds [yards] to the
S. [South] of the broch is a cairn with a diameter
of about 18’ and about 40 yds. [yards] to the S. [South] a
circle surrounded by a stoney bank, about
35’ intr. [interior] diameter with the entrance towards the S.E. [South East]

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