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On the links between the broch and the road the primula Scottie is growing. --

the right. At the foot of the stairs is a chamber
not now visible 9 1/2 in length, 3' in width and
roofed at the end. At 30' to 40' from the base
of the tower are the remains of a wall of
circumvallation visible for a considerable
distance on the NW [North West] and SW [South West] sides and believed
to encircle it. Between this wall and the
broch on the front or entrance side
are the remains of eight or nine small
cells or outbuildings. The greatest height
of wall in the interior is abiut 5'.6" and
of that exposed on the exterior about 2'.
The thickness of the wall varies from 13' - 14'.
The objects found included whetstones, circular
discs of slaty stone, querns, a large long handled
bone comb and three quartzite pebbles of
ovoid shape painted on their surfaces with
spots in a blackish or blackish brown
pigment. In the sand on the top
of the wall of the broch were found four
cists containing skeletons st full length.

[Margin] Broch
Keiss Links
(70)

On the summit of a sandy hillock about
100 yds. [yards] N [North] of the Wester Broch are apparent
the ruins of a stucture possibly a broch.
Returning towards Ackergill I joined
Cree who was busy superintending the
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