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At 4'.5" from the inner end have been
checks for a door. The passage is only
partially cleared and is much ruined.
The diameter of the interior of the broch has
been 26'. The greatest height of wall visible
in the interior is 3'.8" but the base is covered
with debris. The external face where exposed
is quite insignificant in elevation. Outside
the broch to the N. [North] of the entrance passage
the remains of considerable outbuilding have
been laid bare.

4th June 1910.

[Margin] Watten
Achingale Broch.
(4)

On the top of the right bank of the Strath
Burn just below the farm of Achingale
are the remains of a mound which has
probably concealed the ruins of a broch.
Only a small segment of the circular
mound now exists, the rest has
been removed.

[Margin] Cairn
Strath
(28)

On the top of a high bank on the E [East] of the
Strath burn and about 1/2 m. [mile] S W. [South West] of Strath -
is a cairn much delapidated and now
with an elevation of only from 1' to 2'.
it lies with its longest axis N. [North] & S. [South] is
about 70' in length and 16' in width.
There is no sign of either chamber or cist.

[Margin] Cairn
Strath
(28)

A few feet to the W. [West] of it at its N. [North] end
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