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account. We returned to Bonar Bridge
where I had tea in the inn which is dirty
and not to be recommended. It was
nearly 7.0 ere I got back to Brora after
a 13 hours day and not a satisfactory one
as most of the objects are of the slightest
importance.
3rd Augt. [August] Bicycled by Backies & Dunrobin Glen
to Knock Arthur where I resumed examina:
:tion of the hut circles.
On the ridge of a spur that projects from
the hill side towards the SE [South East] end of Loch

[Margin] This is said to be
a large group of
small cairns on
the W [West] flank of
Meall Odhar,
of usual type
& my informant
knew of no hut
circles among them.

Farlary about 40' above the road is a
hut circle entering from the E. [East] and
abutting on an old wall which runs down
the hill past the front of the entrance
It measures interiorly 29' x 30'. The bank
is about 7' thick and the entrance about
3'.6" wide. Several small cairns lie
between the circle and the loch on its

[Margin] A short distance
to the E. [East] in the flat
below the road
is a mounded
construction evi;
dently a kiln.

N. [North] side. Two below the road are rather
larger than usual. One of them is 24' in
diameter and 2'- 3' high. Several old walls
are visible along the hill face.

Rogart
[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 3

The most Westerly of the hut circles near
Knock Arthur where indicated on map just

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