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on a slight elevation are the remains of a broch.
The structure has been cleared out and a portion
of the wall towards the S. [South] removed, the ruins
of a summer house occupying the site.
The interior diameter is 36': the width of the
wall at base about 15'4 at 3'. 6" elevation 13'6 - 14'.
The greatest height remaining exteriorly and
interiorly is 3'.6". The entrance appears to
have been from the S. [South]. The left or W. [West] wall
of the passage seems to remain the other side
has been removed. Some 18' along the inner
circumference from the interior end of the
passage wall there appears to be a built up
entrance some 3' 6" wide. The top of
the wall is covered with turf and no
other signs of chambers are visible.

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10' 6" to the right of the present entrance
there is built in near the top of the wall
a boulder on the exposed face of which
near one end is a circular saucer shaped
depression 4 1/2" in diameter and about
1/2" in depth. This stone may have been
placed in its present position when the
broch was cleared out.
At Gansclet we were referred to
Alisdair Oag an elderly joiner for
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