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has been much pillaged for stones there is
no indication that the interment has been disturbed.

Hut circle
Some 50 yds. [yards] ENE [East North East] of the cairn on Carscreugh Fell
(No. --) is a group of 4 small cairnlike
mounds overgrown with vegetation and
some 50 yds. [yards] N. [North] of them are the indefinite remains
of a hut circle with an interior diameter of
some 36’ with a small mound some 80’ N. [North] of it.

Hut circle
On the Eastmost ridge about 250 yds. [yards] SW. [South West] of
the summit is a large hut circle formed by
a stone wall some 6’ in thickness now
reduced to a low elevation and overgrown
with grass. It measures interiorly 38’ by 45’
and has been entered from the E. [East] in the line of its
longest axis.
Near the large cairn I flushed a hen
grouse off her nest and found five little
chicks in it, just a few days hatched. Later on
I found another nest from which the young
birds had “flown”. This is a very early season :
there is much hawthorn in bloom already, an
uncommon occurrence in May in Scotland.

New Luce Bught Fell
In a hollow between two ridges of out:
:cropping rock to the SE. [South East] of the Bught Fell
and about 150 yds. [yards] S by W. [South by West] of the S. [South] wall of
an old enclosure which lies across the

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