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[Opposite page - 2 sketches and text inserted] - Flint spear head & ring of sandstone (3/4" in thickness)
belonging to Mr. Henderson, Stemster. (actual sizes.)

have been 15' in thickness. About 1' below the
surface on the top of the mound at the S. [South] edge
are protruding the remains of a human skeleton.
The body has been laid extended, E and W [West].

Bower Par. [Parish] Mound (8) Torran Reitheach
In a grass field about 3/4 m. [mile] SW. [South West] of the mill
of Knock Dee is a low mound which is probably
a cairn. It has a diameter of about 30'
and an elevation of about 1 1/2'. The mound
has been much ploughed down.

Sordal Hill (17=18) Horned long Cairn.
Near the SW. [South West] end of Sordal Hill on the
top of the slope which rises above the road from
Thurso to Georgemas is a horned long cairn.
It occupies a conspicuous position visible on
the sky line from afar off on the W. [West]. The
cairn is overgrown with grass and heather
and the horns are obscured with the
exception of one at the E [East] side of the SSE. [South South East] ex:
:tremity. The longest axis
lies NNW [North North West] and SSE. [South South East] and the cairn rises and
expands towards the latter direction.
The extreme length is some 240'. the breadth
at the NNW [North North West] 42' and the elevation about 5'.
At the SSE. [South South East] the breadth is 82' and the eleva:
:tion about 10'
The main

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