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"Wren's Egg" Blairbuie
Some 300 yds. [yards] NW. [North West] of the farm house of Blairbuie
on a slight eminence there stands a large gran:
:itic iceborne boulder around which there formally
stood a double concentric stone circle. Only
two small pointed boulders remain opposite members
of each circle, some 6' apart and E [East] by N. [North] of the
central boulder. The radius of the outer circle
has been 66'. On the face of a slope about
1/4 m. [mile] S. [South] by E. [East] of the Wren's Egg, and to the W. [West] of the
S. [South] end of Blairbuie Loch stand two other small
pointed stones (?) E [East] and W. [West] of each other and
some [--] ft. [feet] apart.
Arrived at Monreith about 6.30 to stay
for a couple of nights.

7th July 1911. Fort Barsalloch Point.
At Barsalloch Point about 3/4 m. [mile] W. [West] of
the village of Monreith is a fort under
the care of H.M. [His Majesty] Office of Works. It is situated
on the edge of the heugh where it rises some
60' or 70' above the level of the 20' beach. The
fort is formed by a deep ditch with a mound
on each side in form of a horse shoe with
its ends resting on the heugh. The ditch
measures some 33' in width from crest to
crest, 12' in greatest depth below the crest of
the scarp and 9' below that of the counterscarp.
The ground slopes downwards from the edge

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