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height of some 30' : 2/3 of the NW [North West] wall remain
with a crack through it from top to bottom.
The W. [West] angle has entirely gone and most of
the SW. [South West] wall. The doorway
has been in the SE [South East] wall, probably on the
first floor, from the seaward end of
the promontory but has been broken
down along with the wall beneath it.
There is no sign of a stair & the roofs have not been vaulted. The approach
to the doorway from a drawbridge across the trench has been through a gate-
-house attached to the NE [North East] wall of the
keep and the foundations of which still
remain. In the NE [North East] wall of the keep connected with
this building is a round headed recess
some 4' wide and 5' high. In rear of
the keep is a small triangular court:
:yard on either side of which have been
ranges of buildings. A portion of the walls
of one of these on the SE. [South East] stands to the
first storey at a height of 18'.
While here the fog came down badly.
With great difficulty in fog & rain I
made my way to the "tumuli" marked
on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] to the S. [South] of where the Forse
Burn falls into the sea.
On the top of the cliffs to the S. [South] of the

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