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main entrance is the entrance to the stair now
built up and the wall on the W. [West] side of it is in a
very ruinous condition. There is a chamber at
the foot of the stair to the left, 12' in length by
5' in width. The stair ascends to the right
4' within the wall and is 4' wide. The steps
of which twelve were disclosed on excavation are
now obscured by debris. Nearly opposite the
main entrance on the interior circumference
is a chamber in the wall the entrance to
which is now partly built up. It was entered
through a rectangular aperture cut in
a large slab which formed the front. The size
of this chamber was found to be 4'.6" in length
by 3'.9" in width and 4'.7" in height. At a
distance of 24' round the inner circumference
to the right of the main entrance is the
entrance to another stair also ascending to
the right. The stairway is 3'.6" wide and
on excavation eleven steps were exposed.
At the foot of the stair was a chamber now
filled in extending for 30' along the centre
of the wall and measuring 4'.6" in width
at floor level. There has been at one time
an entrance to the exterior through the wall
at the foot of the stair 3'.9" wide. In the
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