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The cliffs are of old red sandstone which takes on
beautiful tones of colour and many wild flowers
grow in the clefts and gullies. We found the
wild scilla. (S. [Scilla] verna.)

30th June 1910.
Another dull day, windy and rather wet.
Returned to inspect the objects marked cairns
on Flex Hill near Watten and found that
with one exception, already described, they are
all hut circles!

[Margin] Watten.
Hut circles
Flex Hill.
(29 & 31)

One hut circle to the N [North] of the site of the cairn has
been previously described (page 35.)
At the N. [North] end of Flex Hill some 3/4m. [mile] S. [South] of
Strath farm house close to the wire fence which
runs Westward across the moor from the Camster
Road is a group of hut circles. The furthest
up the slope of the hill, about 100 yds. [yards] distant
from the road is circular measuring some
20' in diameter interiorly. The bank is now
quite low and its breadth too indefinite for
measurement. The floor has been dug out so that
its level is 3' below that of the natural level on
the upper side and 1 1/2' to 2' on the lower. The
position of the entrance is not evident.
The second which is situated some 80'
W. [West] of the first has an interior diameter of
from 18' to 20' and an entrance, seemingly
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