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[Page] 130 HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF WATTEN.

particulars : - The broch was entered from the W. by a passage
going direct through the wall some 17' in length. For 13' inwards
it maintained a uniform width of about 2' 6". At that point a rebate
formed checks for a door and the passage expanded to 4', contracting
again slightly at it inner extremity. Behind the door check on the
left of the passage was found in situ a hollowed stone in which the
pivot of the door had worked. The interior court measured some
29' in diameter. On the left, 19' 6" distant, measured direct from
the inner end of the entrance passage, an opening in the wall some
3' wide led to the staircase at 6' in from the inner face of the wall.
The stair, as usual, rose to the right. At the foot of it was a chamber

[Plan inserted]

FIG 31. - Broch, Coghill ( Cogle) (No. 469) ; Ground-plan.
[Margin note] D37271

some 16' 6" in length, 4' wide at its commencement, expanding
inwards to a width of 7'. Across the interior of the broch was built
at about 5' out from the inner end of the entrance passage, a semi-
circular wall having its convex face towards the entrance, This wall
was some 2' 6" in thickness and stood to a height of 3'. At either
end it projected outward at right angles for a distance of some 4'.
Against it at the S. end within the semicircle was a hearth, marked
off by stones, some 3' square. On either side of the main entrance
in the interior, a single flagstone some 6" in height projected from
the wall, and some 7' to the left was another pair of stones, 2' high,
similarly placed and 3' apart. To the outside of the main entrance
to the broch there were indications of an outer casing wall through
which the passage led.
O.S.M., CAITH., xix. (unnoted). Visited, 30th May 1910.

470. Broch, Scottag. - Close to the road to the SE. of Scottag
farm-house is a low mound overgrown with grass and surmounted
with a modern cairn. Its elevation of some 5' above the level of