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excavation of a hut circle in a Sandy hollow.
The diameter is some 20'. - The entrance from SE. [South [East]
about 3' wide: the walls built of stone: and
the floor all over neatly paved with flags. The
interior has been in part out at the back.
There is a small recess in the wall on the
right of the doorway - the sand in which is
much discoloured for a depth of nearly 2' or more
& contains fragments of charcoal. Few relics
of any kind, even shells & bones lay within the
hut but to the N. [North] of it is a large kitchen
midden still to be examined. From the surface
of it Mrs Duff Dunbar picked up a nice bone
pin with a T shaped head.

13th June 1910.
A wet morning. Before lunch walked
to Bilbster to inspect a mound Cree had
drawn my attention to on Sunday evening.

[Margin] Broch Bilbster
(unnoted)

On a low lying meadow on the left bank of the
Wick River and some 300 yds. [yards] NW. [North West] of road bridge
to the N. [North] of Bilbster House & some 30 yds [yards] from the river is a grassy hillock.
It has been under cultivation and has now
an elevation of only 3' or 4' but its artificial
character is obvious. The diameter over all
is some 94'. There is a hollow or depression
on the top some 38' in diameter. The level
of the field all around the hillock is low.
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