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left wall is concealed by a secondary wall
curving round to the right into the interior of
the broch which has not been cleared out. The
passage is roofless throughout. The left wall
wall exists to a height of about 4' and the right
to about 3'. The inner face of the main wall of the broch is
exposed at several points showing that the
interior diameter was about 30'. The exterior
is not laid bare. In addition to the secondary
wall at the end of the passage another is
visible some 9' to the left of it in the interior.
The diameter of the
mound across the top of the broch is about 110'.

Thurso Thingsva' Broch (8)
Some 60 yds [yards] ? E. [East] of the last is a low grassy
mound with a diameter over all of about
70' and an elevation of about 6' which has
to some extent been quarried into from the N. [North]
side. It has the appearance of a broch.

[Margin] Hopefield Cairn (12)

Of the cairn at Hopefield indicated on the
O.S. [Ordnance Survey] there is now hardly a trace. A road has
passed through it.

(Thurso) Lythemore Broch (3)
About 1/2 m. [mile] NNW. [North North West] of Lythemore at the
upper end of a field which lies between the
Forss Water and the road from Milton to

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