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diameter and 5' to 6' in elevation above the
surrounding level. It is evidently the remains
of a broch.

[Margin] Standing Stone Gansclet (48)

About ? 1/4 M. [mile] N.W. [North West] of the school house at Gansclet
in an arable field is a large slab 7'. 4" in length
4" in thickness, 3'.7" in breadth at base, and
2' in breadth at the top. It is supported
by three or four smaller slabs driven into the
ground on either face and rests on another
protruding 1'.6" above ground. It faces
E. and W. [East and West] The large slab with the base
on which it rests is said to have formed
a single standing stone and to have been
broken by a blow from a hammer some
60 years ago. It was re-erected at the time
by orders of the proprietor .

[Margin] Broch (Gansclet) unnoted.

In rear and partially beneath the house
of Henry Taylor at Gansclet somewhat
less than 1/4 m. [mile] W.S.W. [West South West] of the standing stone
is an artificial mound overgrown with
turf from which a number of flat stones
protrude. It measures some 70' in diameter
and 5' in height and is evidently the
ruin of a broch.

[Margin] Thrumster Broch. (17)

Within a small paddock to the S. [South] of
the avenue from the E [East] to Thrumster Ho. [House] and
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