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interior of the square and found no sign
of any interment. The stones were some 1'.8" in
height.
On my return about 7. o'clock I found that
Lord Pentland had wired requesting me to
meet him in the afternoon on his way to Wick.
I was sorry to miss him.

13th Sept [September] 1910.
Drove to Shurrery with Prof. [Professor] Bryce to
re-examine certain cairns there which perplexed
me on my previous visit.
We concluded that the construction (no. 45. p. [page] 6)
was a cairn of chambered character but of a
type hitherto unmet with and suggesting
the complex plans of the Orkney cairns.
The cairn (no. 47. p. [page] 8) about 1/4 m. [mile] SE. [South East] of the
church has evidently been of the same
type. The positions of the slabs indicate
that there has been a chamber of complex
character entered from the SE. [South East] the back
slab of which is some 49' in from the edge
of the cairn in that direction and 45' from
the edge at the opposite side. Some 7'.6" to
the NE [North East], & nearly in alignment, is another slab
7' in length, which appears likewise to have formed
the back of a chamber one wall of which is
just apparent 5'.9" in length built at right

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