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a short cist is exposed lying with its longer
axis ESE [East South East] and WNW [West North West]. It is covered by a slab meas:
:ing [measuring] 2'.7" in length, 1'.8" in breadth and 1" in thick:
:ness The cist itself is 2'.1" long x 1' broad &
1'.3" deep and is paved with four small flags.
When cleared out there were found near the
centre of the floor about a dozen whelk shells
but no remains of any interment.

Site of chapel. Isauld (73)
Among the sand dunes to the NE [North East] of the Isauld
Burn some 300 or 400 yds [yards] back from its
mouth are the foundations of a structure
of some sort, very scanty and unmeasurable
and here was supposed to lie the runic stone.
It was two years since John Nicolson had
found it and though the various objects
he had noted as guides to its position were
all in place the stone itself was gone.
Great was his disappointment but not so
great ours as the marks disclosed in his
photograph were much more like ice scrathes [scratches]
than runes cut by the hand of man.
Crossing the links we made our way to
the churchyard of Reay. In the NE. [North East] corner
are the reconstructed remains of part of the
old church measuring interiorly 16'.2" x
11'.8". Set into the W [West] wall towards its

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