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polishing. On its surface are a number of small
triangular shaped impressions made with a tool
such as I have seen before on deerhorn etc.

[Margin] Nybster Broch.
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The broch of Nybster is situated on the top of a
high cliff promontory about 60 yards in length and
40 yds. [yards] in width at the landward end, narrowing
to Seaward. It has been cut off from the land
by a ditch some 20' wide drawn across the land:
:ward end. The broch has been excavated by
the late Sir Francis Tress Barry and has been
described by Dr [Doctor] Joseph Anderson. From that
description the following particulars are in the
main taken. Immediately within the ditch,
a well-built wall about 10' in thickness, increas:
:ing to about 15' in the middle also crosses the
promontory in a segment of a circle with its convex side towards the land.
Near the middle of the convexity (where the wall is
thickest is the entrance passage, 15' in length
through the thickness of the wall, 3'.6" in width
at the outer end, widening to 4' at a distance
of 4 1/2' inwards, where there are checks for a door,
and widening again slightly at 12' from
the entrance, where there are checks for a
second door. On the inner side of this
forework to the S [South] of the entrance, part of the thickening
of the wall ends in a stairway of which five
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