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for information & from him I learned the
foregoing statement regarding the standing stone.
He had assisted at Dr. [Doctor] Anderson's various
excavations in the neighbourhood.
The crofters here are a pleasanter more
intelligent looking race than those in
Sutherland, though their condition appears
no better and their accommodation worse.
They seem even less clean in their houses & persons!

[Margin] Little Thrumster Broch (16)

In the corner of a field about 80 yds. S. [yards South] of
Thrumster Little, farm house are the remains
of a broch. The outer circumference is
everywhere visible and shows a diameter
over all of 56' 6". The foundation stones
are of great size. The inner face is
only cleared for some 20' to the left of
the end of the entrance passage and is
exposed for a height of about 3'. 6"
The Entrance has been from the E.N.E. [East North East] through
a passage some 13' in length and 3'3" wide
at the outer end. At 5'.6" inwards are
door jambs projecting from either side
narrowing the passage to 2'. 6". In
rear of them the passage expands, however,
to 3' 10" which width it seems to maintain
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