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26' or 27' x 16'. The walls have been some
4' in thickness. A faced opening through the
E [East] wall of the chancel near the N. [North] side seems to
indicate an entrance, while a depression in
the mound covering the S. [South] wall of the nave
near its W. [West] end probably marks the doorway
into that portion of the church. The base
of the wall separating the two areas has been
some 4'.6" in thickness. The walls appear to
have been built without mortar. The wall of
of the nave in places on the interior is visible for some
3' in height otherwise it is overgrown with
turf. The W. [West] of the ruin is an
old enclosure and several foundations
of old rectangular buildings around it.

[Margin] Broch.
Scouthal
(26)

On the W. [West] side of the road to Acherole
from Watten about 1/2 m. [mile] beyond Scouthal
is a grassy hillock. The character of the

[Margin] "Carn a Chladha"

stones disclosed about its surface points
to its being a broch. It measures some 70'
in diameter and some 10' in elevation.

[Margin] Broch Acherole
(9)

About 2 m. [miles] up the burn of Acherole from
Watten near Acherole are the conspicuous
remains of a broch. From the moorland
there rises a grassy hillock on the sides
and summit of which much shaley stone
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