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[Margin] Latheron
Broch
Camster
(23)

In the moorland about
1/2 m. [mile] S. [South] of Camster and somewhat concealed by
the higher ground to the E and W. [East and West] is a green
flat topped mound covering the ruins of a
broch. It has been surrounded by a ditch
some 44' in width. The scarp which measures
down the slope some 30' is about 5' in elevation
and the counterscarp, which is much steeper is
some 4' in height. The base of a wall encircling
the mound at the level of the top of the scarp
is visible all round and an entrance through
it is apparent on the ENE. [East North East] from the exposure
of a few feet of the face of a wall curving
inwards. The diameter across the space en:
:closed by this wall is some 85' and across
the level top of the mound, which rises for
some 4' or 5' above it is 35'. Placed at irregular
intervals around the base of the mound,
and in one instance on the sloping side of it,
are some 4 or 5 small cairn-like heaps of
stones measuring some 8' across.

1st July 1910.
Yet another wet day Rain falling in torrents
until the evening. Finished revising the
proofs of the Sutherland Introduction and
also examined & marked the maps.
I bicycle on an average 20 miles a day
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