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is from ESE. [East South East] through the wall 13' in thickness.
At 4' inwards are checks for a door formed
by a rebate of the passage wall and on the
left behind this a rebuilt portion of
wall appears to indicate the entrance to
a guard chamber. The width of the
entrance passage is 2'.9" at the outer end,
2'.6" at the inner end and 3'.7" behind
the door checks. The height of the passage
walls is 5'.4" and the covering slabs are
all awanting. The interior diameter of
the broch is 33'. From the inner end
of the entrance passage on the right meas:
ured direct at 19'.6" distant is an entrance
2' wide giving access to a chamber,
in part reconstructed, from which has
apparently risen the stair. The average
height of the broch wall, which has been
in places built up, is 5'.3" in the interior
but on the exterior it has not been ex:
:posed. There are indications of con:
:siderable outbuildings which have not
been excavated. A rotary quern
and a mortar of large size the bottom of
which has been broken out lie in the
interior and there are preserved at

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