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of some 17'.6" and a diameter over all at
base of 16'. The wall is 2'.10" in thickness. The
interior is lined with the usual stone nests and
there is an aperture at the top for the egress
& ingress of the pigeons. The building is in
rather a ruinous state.
The older part of the house of Dale is
evidently Georgian. There are few trees
near it and except for a shooting lodge it
does not seem attractive. A couple
of hundred yards to the N. [North] of the house
is the burial ground of the Budges of Toftin:
:gale. It is enclosed by a high wall which
I climbed. Within it nothing but a crop of
nettles was visible. At Westerdale
I called on the Rev. [Reverend] Angus Mackay, Free
Church Minister. He told me of a small
stone circle near Dirlot Castle and of a
standing Stone near Tullochans. In his
possession is a long polished celt, (by memory some 8" to 9" in length) broken across.
pierced at one end with a hole about 1/2" in dia. [diameter].
From Westerdale we rode on to Hoy to catch
the train arriving just in time as the rain
began to fall heavily.

22nd June 1910.
A thoroughly wet morning and a mist
that obscures everything beyond 100 yds. [yards] Wrote
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