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ordinary type lie quite near and around.
24th Augt. [August]. A wet day with thick mist over the hills
In the afternoon when it cleared a little went up
Strath Brora with Serjeantson. We looked in
vain for the chambered cairn mentioned by Dr. [Doctor] Joass.

[Margin] Unnoted

On the top of an eminence NE [North East] of the island at the
lower end of Loch Brora and about 1/4 m. [mile] back
from the E [East] bank of the loch is a small cairn
outlined with large and almost contiguous boulders.
It is about 16' in diameter and not more than
2' high. There seems no great quantity of stone
on the cairn and a very considerable growth
of peat. To the N and NE. [North and North East] are a number
of small cairns. 8 or 10 lie about 30 yds. [yards] to the NE. [North East]
and several on the slope of the hill to the N. [North].
On either side of the old road which leads from
Oldtown to Wester Clynekirkton from about
1/2 m. [mile] S.E [South East] of the former place are numerous
cairns of the usual small type.

[Margin] Clyne O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 5.

About 1 1/4 m. [mile] SE [South East] of Oldtown and a quarter of a mile
back from the old road at about an elevation
of 650' are the ruins of a broch. It is now
a structureless mass of stone.
What is probably the
entrance is exposed for a short distance towards
the WNW. [West North West] by one side of the passage for a

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