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business and were relieved to meet the lost
luggage on its way out. Meeting the boy
at 11:30 at Haster Smithy I set off on my work.

[Margin] Wick par. [parish]
(72.S.) [Site]

Some 200 yds. [yards] E.S.E. [East South East] of Upper Haster Farm
house at the lower end of a cultivated field
some 100 yds. [yards] W. [West] of the Haster Burn are the
foundations of St. Cuthberts church. It
appears to have been a chancelled building
and to have measured interiorly about 40' x 14'
The chancel wall has crossed the interior
about 13' from the E. [East] end. As the wall
faces are not exposed their measurements
may not be absolutely accurate.

[Margin] "(15)

A green mound at the edge of the bank
some 100 yds. E. [yards East] of the Haster Burn and
about 250 yds. W. [yards West] of Old Stirkoke farm house
covers the remains of a broch. About 2/3 of
the mound have been removed from the
N. [North] side and no wall face is anywhere
visible. The original diameter has been
from 80' - 90'. (See Anderson, Iron Age - p. page 232.)

[Margin] Tarmach (14)

In the middle of an arable field some 300
yds. N. [yards North] of Tarmach farm house and
some 50 yds. E. [yards East] of the road to Thrumster
is a stony mound which has been
ploughed over measuring some 77' in
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