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rising at some considerable distance back
from the foreshore. On a low projecting rock
which forms its Northern extremity are the
fragmentary remains of a stone built
fort which has in the past been much
quarried for stones to built the adjacent
croft and other buildings doubtless connected
with the industry which gave the bay its name.
The rock has a fairly level surface at its land:
:ward end except for a fringe of jagged points
along each side while to seaward its surface
is similarly irregular. The fort on the flat
portion appears to have been in form irregularly
shield-shaped with a concave face to
the seaward end and a projection along a
higher point of rock to the W. [West]. It seems
to have measured interiorly some 66' by 58'
but the plan of the structure owing to its
delapidation is most indefinite. The wall
which surrounded the fort has been
massive & of dry built masonry.

Fort Larbrax Kemp's Walk.
On the S. [South] side of Larbrax Bay projecting from
the face of the heughs and bounded on the
S. [South] by the deep glen of the [--] burn is
a promontory some [--] in length with steep
grassy flanks some ?60' - 70' in height and to the

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