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built in two storeys some 20' to 22' in height and having
an opening in the roof for the ingress and egress
of the pigeons. From a height of 7' above the
floor it is lined with stone nests.
The house of Freswick is a tall narrow structure
built on a cruciform plan about the year 1745.

[Margin] Kitchen Middens.
Freswick Bay.

Stretching along Freswick Bay about 1.4m. [mile] N [North] of Freswick
House at a spot known as "The Lady's Brow" are several kitchen middens from which
bone pins and numerous fragments of coarse
undecorated pottery have been recovered.

[Margin] Freswick Sands Broch
(5)

Situated among the sand hills about 1/2m [mile] N. [North] of
Freswick House is a broch the foundations
of which rest on the pure sand. It was
excavated by Sir Francis Barry and described
by Dr [Doctor] Joseph Anderson but it is now in a
very ruinous condition and its features largely
obscured by sand and debris. On excavation
the broch wall was found to be 11'.6" thick
with a scarcement 12" to 18" wide on the inside
It enclosed an interior area 32'.8" in diameter.
The wall was for the greater part of its extent
about 7' high but was partly broken down
on the W. [West] side, where the original entrance
probably had been. Facing to NE. [North East] is still visible
an entrance passage by the foot of the stair
2'.9" wide. There was a chamber at the foot of the
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