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slab occupying the latter position is 5' broad.
None of the slabs protrude for a greater height
than 1'.7". No part of the walls of the chamber
are visible. The greatest elevation is 6'. A
large amount of stone has evidently at some
time been removed from the cairn on the SE [South East].

Halkirk. Hut Circle Loch Calder (Unnoted)
About half way down the W. [West] side of Loch
Calder, W. [West] of the Big Island and some 200
yds. [yards] from the shore is a hut circle. It is
formed of two circular enclosures in alignment
the one opening out of the other in line of the
main entrance which is from the SE [South East].
The back circle measures interiorly 25' x 27'.
The floor which has been dug out to some
extent is some 4' below the top of the enclosing
bank and 2'.6" or thereby above the floor level
of the front enclosure. The thickness of the
bank is indefinite but appears to have been
about 8'. The front circle measures interiorly
23' x 25'. Details of the entrance and connecting
passage are not evident. The whole construction
is overgrown with heather.

Hut Circle Loch Calder (unnoted)
Somewhat less than 1/4 m. [mile] N. [North] of the last is
another hut circle also overgrown with
heather. It measures interiorly 20' x 25'
and is entered from the SE [South East].

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