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30' and a portion of the S. [South] wall alone remains.
The walls at the basement are some 4' thick and only
about 2'.6" above that. The Entrance passage, 4'.6"
wide and one apartment to the S. [South] of it occupy the
basement and are vaulted, the first floor has
had a flat roof and the
room above it again has been vaulted. The
entrance passage passing beyond the keep
gave access to a courtyard which was long
and narrow and had buildings on each side
of it. These buildings are for the most part
built with clay.

[Margin] Supplement
from McG. & R.

A kitchen midden of great
extent lies along the top of the cliff to seaward.

[Margin] Ness Broch
(4)

This broch is situated at the landward end of
a high promontory which runs out to sea for a
distance of about 80yds [yards] and of which it occupies
the neck about 25yds. [yards] wide. It was excavated
by Sir Francis Barrie & was described by Dr [Doctor]
Joseph Anderson from whose description the
following details are mainly taken. Across
the neck there is a strong wall about 6' high
with a depression in front of it, in which there
is a well, now filled up, 9'.6" in depth with twelve
steps leading down to it and roofed with flags.
The broch wall has largely gone. There appear
to have been two entrances, one from the SW [South West] now much
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