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original floor level. The walls are as usual
built and the roof covered with flags. It
was a rather painful progress getting along on
hands and knees over the boulders, grasping a
candle, note book &c, and there was none too
much air at the end. Had I found a fox
at the end what would have happened?!

[Margin] From the E [East] side of the entrance passage a wall has run down the hill in front.

Between the entrance to the circle on the interior
and the opening into the passage a low bank runs for
7' into the enclosure. It is noteworthy
that here the external features of the circle
give no indication of the existence of the
underground house.
Some 200 yds. [yards] SSW. [South South West] of it is another circle
with an interior diameter of 24' entering from
the SE [South East] through a passage 14' long and 5 wide.
The enclosing bank is about 7' and begins to
increase in width at about 16' from the entrance.
About 100 yds. [yards] NNE. [North North East] of the first enclosure is
another, circular with a diameter of 31' interiorly
- an enclosing bank about 8' wide and entrance
from the SE [South East] about 5' across. An old wall
runs off from the bank on the E [East] of the entrance.
Numerous small cairns lie around
these enclosures.
On the opposite or E [East] side of the glen are

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