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lies pointing WNW [West North West] and ESE. [East South East] Both stones have
probably been members of a stone circle. From
the top of a mound somewhere near Sir F. T. Barry
recovered an urn from a stone cist. The urn
is said to be in the National Museum (see Antiq). [Antiquities]

[Margin] Watten Broch
(14)

In a grass park on the edge of a bank and
about 1/2 m [mile] S by W [South by West] of Watten village are the remains
of a broch beneath a grass covered knoll. The
base of the building is exposed at one or two
places showing that the diameter over all was
64'. On the SE. [South East] for a distance of about 8' a
small portion of wall is exposed of a height of
some 2' evidently the inner wall face of a
chamber. The mound is about 8' high.
On the S. [South] several very large boulders in line
project a foot or two above the turf at a distance
of 22' from the base of the broch indicating
some outer wall.

28 May 1910.
J and I drove into Wick to catch
the 8.45 for Thurso. There I called on
Mr Peter Keith, agent for Sir Tollemache Sinclair,
Mr Donald Mackay, Capt. [Captain] Sinclair's agent,
and Mr Brim's Agent for the Traill Estates.
We secured a small house called Tigh
-na-Mara, on the outskirts of the town
for August and as much of September as we
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