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19' broad at the SSW [South South West] end and 11' at NNE [North North East]
[Margin] Unnoted
extremity. 12' distant from it at the N [North]
end lies a small cairn of 11' diameter, and 9'
away at the opposite end
another 13' in diameter.
[Sketches inserted]
[Margin] Unnoted
To the S. [South] of the cairns are
the faint indications of
an ancient enclosing bank.
Where it forms an angle there
appears to have been an
entrance and abutting on
one side of it a small
enclosure measuring about
9' x 12' in interior diameter.
In the vicinity are several small circular
enclosures of about 10' Interior diameter
with banks about 4' thick and entrances
from the SE. [South East]. One of these is set against
the end of a largish cairn which has in con:
:sequence been slightly dilapidated at that end.
Many cairns are lying around.
Some 400 yds. [yards] N. [North] of the house is a considerable
group of cairns some of them larger than usual
& in conjunction with the foregoing stretch
along the hill side Eastward for nearly
3/4 m. [mile]. One cairn near the W. [West] end of the
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