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17th Augt. [August] 1910.
Another indifferent day. Hired a trap &
took S. [Sandy] with me.

Thurso Thingsva' Broch. (2)
At the edge of the moorland towards the S. [South]
end of Scrabster Hill is the broch of Thingsva.
It has stood in the centre of a mound cut
off from the higher level to the N. [North] by a ditch
some 30' in width and 8' in depth below
the top of the scarp & about 4' below the
top of the bank above the counterscarp. The
broch has occupied the centre of the mound
some 18' to 20' back from the edge of the
ditch. It has been partially excavated.
The entrance passage has been from the SE. [South East] and
appears to have been 15' in length and 3'.6"
in width at the outer end. At 3'.10" inwards
is a rebate for a door faced with slabs set
edgeways into the wall constricting the passage
to 2'.10" between them. The width in rear
of them is 4'.3". On the right of the passage
behind the door checks there has evidently been
the entrance to a guard chamber the inner
edge of which is visible but neither passage
nor chamber are cleared of debris. At 8'
inwards from the first door checks are another
pair of slabs opposite to each other set
edgeways into the walls. Within this the

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