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main entrance is the entrance to the stair in the
thickness of the wall 2'.7" wide with a small chamber
opposite the stair foot. Only two
steps of the stair remained and these are not
now visible. On the right of the entrance to
the stair in the interior court is a tank-like
construction sunk in the floor 3'.8" long, 1'.9" broad
and 2' deep covered with slabs and adjacent to
the N. [North] is another of similar dimensions. In the
centre of the interior area was a hearth
covered with ashes. The wall on the exterior is about 2' in height. As well as a portion
of the broch wall a part of the outbuildings has
also fallen over the cliff forming the N [North] side of
the promontory. On the seaward side of the
broch to the S. [South] of the entrance is an irregularly
shaped chamber or well measuring across the top
some 10' by 7' and some 10' in depth with a drain
leading into it from the S. [South] This well-like cavity
still retains water. In one of the out:
:buildings on the right of the entrance was found
a palmated horn of the true elk (Alces Malchis)
There were also found quern stones, several flat
circular discs of slaty stone, and a number
of pounders, oblong pebbles wasted at the ends
by use.
Above the cliffs the S. [South] side of the goe which flanks the
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