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the mound has been surmounted by a parapet
The space between the front of
the broch & the edge of the mound is about 30'.

[Margin] Stemster (Broch)

At the edge of a field about 1/2 m. [mile] N. [North] of Stemster
Farm is a conical grassy mound which
appears to contain the ruins of a broch.
One half of it has been under cultivation and
at no point is any part of the structure ex:
:posed. The mound has an elevation of about
11' and a diameter over all of 108'.

(Thurso) Oust. unnoted
In the stackyard of the steading at Oust are
two small subterraneous excavations which have
probably been the well and cellar of a broch.
The westmost of the two is a chamber, roughly
rectangular about 5' square, the lower part of
which is cut out of the solid rock and finished
above with a converging roof covered with
slabs. The greatest height is 5'.4" above the
present floor level. It is reached by a steep
flight of 14 steps cut out of the rock measuring
6" in breadth of tread. The stair way is 2' wide.
The vertical height from the present floor level
to the level of the top step is 8'.6" and
to the ground 11'.3".
Some 5' distant is the other entered from
the opposite direction. It is a mere shaft

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