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one or two but, as I expected from their external
appearance they seemed to be natural concretions
of moss or peat. They were all close together,
some 4' in diameter and 1 1/2 to 2' high. Could
they have been heaps of turf or peat gathered
in some distant age and left on the
ground? Among them is an oval depres:
:sion facing NW. [North West] measuring interiorly
about 12' x 7'; some 3' in depth and showing
the remains of a low bank on the edge
around it. In the interior was a thin
layer of charcoal below the turf all
over and from it was taken a flake
of yellow flint about 3/4" x 1/2" in dimension.
Another similar hollow existed about 40'
to the W. [West]. The charcoal did not resemble the
remains of twigs on branches but of thin flakes
or shavings of wood.
Leaving Blarich I bicycled to Ardgay
passing through Lairg and stopping for
a few minutes to photograph the remains
of the small stone circle by the side of
the Shin. It was a lovely evening and the
autumn tints of gold and crimson on the
birch trees and rowans intermingling with
the darker hues of the pines as the road

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