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road I hired a car and left at 10.0.
We called at Nybster & picked up John Nicholson
He showed me a beautiful javelin spear head of
bronze, some 4 1/2" long with two side loops
found near Freswick Bridge on the John o' Groats
road.

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[Margin] Cup marked Stones
Nybster.

In front of John Nicholson's house at Nybster
are three cup marked stones which he has
brought from various places.

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No. 1. An oval block of freestone from the
Sand broch at Freswick measures 1'.9" in
length by 1'.3" in breadth and 6" in thickness
Irregularly disposed over its surface are
nine cup marks. The largest has a diameter
of 3" and a depth of 1 1/4" - the smallest a diameter
of 1 1/2". The diameters of the other marks average
some 2 1/2".
No. 2. A large irregularly shaped block
of red sandstone, found thrown out from
the ruins of Gills broch Cannisbay by a
man quarrying it for stones. Its length is 2'.6"
& its breadth 1'.3". At the upper end of the
stone is one large oblong cup mark 7 1/2" long
by 5" wide by 2" deep. Beneath it are ten other
marks, circular, the largest of which near the
base on the left measures 3" x 1 1/4" while the
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