The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . en completely exposed externally, and the inclosed area excavatedto the surface of the rock, so that the work of exploration has beenmost eifectually performed. The external wall measures fourteen feetin thickness, and about eight feet in greatest height, and incloses anarea of about thirty feet in diameter. The construction of the wall issingular, the exterior and interior facings appearing to have been care-fully built with unhewn stones fitted together with great nicety, andthe intervening space filled up with stones thrown in with little
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . en completely exposed externally, and the inclosed area excavatedto the surface of the rock, so that the work of exploration has beenmost eifectually performed. The external wall measures fourteen feetin thickness, and about eight feet in greatest height, and incloses anarea of about thirty feet in diameter. The construction of the wall issingular, the exterior and interior facings appearing to have been care-fully built with unhewn stones fitted together with great nicety, andthe intervening space filled up with stones thrown in with little care 426 Tf5E TEUTONK OJl TliON Ilnaol). or design. JS^o cement had been used, but the wall is still strong- andwithout any displacement in the facings, though so much ruined thatno certain idea can now be formed of its original height. The greatquantity of stones which lay both within and about it served, how-ever, to sliew that only a small portion of the original fabric accompanying view of the most perfect side of the interior will. Hovr of Hnsav. convey a better idea of the general appearance and details than an}-description could do. The two upright stones about halfway up the?wall on the left of the drawing appear to be the side-posts either of adoor or outlook, to which the projecting step below was probably de-signed to give access; but it was found built uj) like the other partsof the walls, and the proprietor having since, in a misdirected zeal forthe preservation of the ruin, had the whole pointed with lime, it is nolonger possible to detect the additions of later builders. Round theinner circumference of the wall upright flag-stones project at intervalsof six feet apart. Only six of these now remain, but the fragmentsof others were discovered among the debris. In the recesses formedby these projecting stones there were found several stone quernes, ashallow stone mortar and pestle, or corn-crusher, of the rudest and mostprimitive construction, and also
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