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a very few stones remain while the row
indicated on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] and the plan (op.cit.) [in work cited] as
being nearly double the length of the others or 384' in length is now
within the area of ploughed land and almost
eradicated. Broken fragments which probably
represent the stones lie on the adjacent heather

[Opposite Page]
17th June. 1910.
I have revisited the Battle Moss & counted
the stones actually visible. A considerable number
of others evidently in situ are concealed beneath small
mounds of peat.
From the E. [East]
1st row 8 stones
2nd row 10 stones
3rd row 13 - (one of which is uprooted)
4th row 9
5th row 3.
6th row 10
7th row 11. (one of which is uprooted)
8th row 11 (one of which is uprooted) --
The most Northerly stone of this row now visible
is 304' distant from the commencement of the row.
The distance between the rows varies from 5' to
7' 8" and the stones are set in the rows from
5' to 6'.6" apart. As in similar monuments
the stones are placed with their broad faces
looking across the rows. They are slabs of
freestone from 3" to 4" in thickness and
protrude from a few inches to about a foot
above the ground. Except where the cultivated
land has encroached none of the stones seem
to have been recently disturbed. --

[Margin] Broch of Yarrows
(20)

This broch was excavated by Dr [Doctor] Joseph
Anderson and has been fully described
and illustrated. It is now in a rather
dilapidated condition and the stone of
which it is built especially on the inner
face of the wall is disintegrating rapidly
The interior diameter is 27' and above the
scarcement 32. The greatest height of wall
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