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require. It is very small but will just ac:
:commodate us. I had a look through the
old part of the town neat the harbour and
noted that several old houses having initials or
dates on the skewputs & picturesque features.
It is a clean attractive town contrasting
favourably with Wick. In the after:
:noon we went on to Borrobol where we
spent a pleasant Sunday with the Sykes.

30th May 1910.
Left the train on our return from Borrobol
at Watten Station where I met Alick. It

[Margin] Watten.

was another dull stormy day. Taking
the road to Gersa I examined a mound

[Margin] Broch Scottay
(O.S. [Ordnance Survey] cairn)

on the road side some 25 yards E. [East] of Scottay
farm house. It is a low mound over:
:grown with grass and surmounted with
a modern cairn. It appears to have been
considerably reduced by the removal of
stones. It has an elevation of some 5' above
the level of the field. The flat stones exposed
about its surface show it to be the remains
of a broch.
A short distance further North is the
school house of Gersa. There I called on
Mr Sutherland who produced boxes full of relics
from the Cogle broch which
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