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Broch Lower Dounreay.
About 1/2 m. [mile] S. [South] of Dounreay Farm House
is a grassy mound on the top of which are
the ruins of a broch. It is situated partially
in two fields the dyke passing across the
centre. The diameter over all is some 87'
and of the area containing the broch about
54'. The greatest elevation is about 10'. Ruins
are visible on the E [East] side but no wall face
appears. There are traces of a surrounding
ditch.

Broch. Upper Dounreay. (15)
In a field about 100 yds. [yards] NE. [North East] of Loch Ach:
:bulligan and about ? 2/3 WSW. [West South West] of Upper
Dounreay is a grassy mound containing
the ruins of a broch. The broch has been
situated towards the SW. [South West] end of the elevation.
The area covered by it measures approximately 60'
and the depression marking the interior
about 27' but no wall faces are exposed.
The elevation at the SW [South West] where the slope is
steep is 13'. From the opposite direction the
rise is gradual. On the N. [North] the ruin
has been pillaged to some extent.

26th Augt. [August] 1910.
A hopelessly wet day. Wrote up notes.

27th Augt. [August] 1910.
Still wet - finished notes & plotting plans.

29th Augt. [August] 1910
Pouring rain in the morning. As it faired
about midday hired a trap to Sandside

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