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for the rest of its course. The passage is roofless
& ruined and the existence of a guard chamber
is unascertainable without excavation.
At 8' round the inner circumference on the
left of the entrance is an opening about 1'. 6" square
which appears to have been a shaft for light
above the entrance to a chamber. The chamber
is visible through a small aperture in the roof
some 4' behind the face of the wall on the interior.
The greatest height of wall visible on the ex:
:terior is about 4'. For the most part the ruin
is beneath a grassy mound the highest
point of which is about 9' above the level
of the field and some 3' above the highest
elevation of wall visible in the interior
Presuming the thickness of the wall to be the
same all round the interior diameter must
be about 30'. 6".

[Margin] Hempriggs.
(Broch.
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In a small plantation to the S [South] of the
lodge at the entrance to Hempriggs House
are the remains of a broch. A grassy
mound some 10' in height partially
removed on the E. [East] covers the ruins. The
outline of the broch is in places exposed and shows
that the diameter has been about 56' over all.
No other details are visible.
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