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south, and is not constructed of uprights. About 8 feet to the 

 south, is a large upright stone, 3 feet high. There are traces of 

 boundary stones round the mass that represent the walls, but 

 "whether originally set on edge as about a cairn, or that they are 

 merely stones fallen from the walls, has not been decided as yet 

 by the spade. 



Hut B. The interior length of this hut is 50 -ft. It con- 

 tains three compartments, all entered from that in the centre, 

 which alone has a door for egress. This central chamber has not 

 been excavated. It measures 12-ft. 6-in. by 10-ft. 6-in. The 

 doorway is not in the middle. Both jambs are standing, they 

 are stones 3-ft. high, and the lintel is just without, a slab 

 measuring 4-ft. by 2-ft. 3-in. The opening between the jambs 

 is 2-ft. 6-in. 



Turning to the right is a door in the party wall leading into 

 the largest apartment, measuring 24-ft. long, by about 10-ft. 

 wide. The jambs remain in place. This chamber seems to have 

 been lined with upright slabs of granite. It has not yet been 

 excavated. 



Turning from the vestibule to the left, a doorway of which 

 one of the jambs is gone, gives admission to a small chamber,, 

 measuring 9-ft. 6-in. by 12-ft. The walls of this house are 3-ft, 

 thick, but the western wall is four times the width of the east, 

 and the object for this width was to allow of the construction in 

 its thickness of both an oven and a locker, each to the depth of 

 5-ft. The oven was never of " cloam," but was constructed of 

 granite, and precisely like a beehive hut in structure. It was 

 3-ft. in diameter, built of granite-stones gathered together so as 

 to overlap and form a dome. Fires have turned the stones red, 

 and have so injured them that the top of the oven has fallen in. 

 The bottom of the oven was but 6 inches above the level of the 

 floor. Close to the oven, in the depth of the wall is a locker, the 

 opening to which is 1-ft. 4-in. wide, and 1-ft. 7-in. high, running 

 five feet into the depth of the wall, and covered over with four 

 or five slabs of granite. It was no doubt placed close to the 

 oven that its contents might be kept dry ; those in the furthest 

 depth could only be extracted by means of a crooked stick. We 

 removed the coverers, but found nothing in the locker, and then 



