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steps remain from the level of the interior area to the
present level of the top of the wall. A similar arrange:
:ment of steps to the north of the entrance gives access
to the present top of the wall from the floor of the
long chamber immediately behind the northern
half of the wall. Immediately in front of this
entrance through the forework stands the broch
which, however, is entered from the opposite or
seaward side and is in that direction enclosed
by a congeries of outbuildings oblong, circular,
and irregular in form scattered over nearly the
whole area of the promontory. The entrance to
the broch is through a passage 14' in length, about
3' in width for the first 10' when there are checks
for a door and widening a few inches on either
side for the remainder of its length. ^ [caret mark]

[Margin] ^ [caret mark] The stone in
which the pivot
of the door worked
is still in situ.]

There is
no guard chamber. The interior area measures
23' in diameter and there is no scarcement.
There is no stair but at 14'.6" from the inner end
of the passage to the left on the inner face of
the wall a filling or rebuilding with smaller
stone, commencing 2' above the floor level & ex:
:tending for a distance of 5' is distinctly visible.
The greatest height of wall remaining is 5'.3".
In the floor of the interior area towards the
N [North] side there are two cist like constructions
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