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a condition for an exact measure to be taken. Was this a bed 

 recess ! or was it a warm store place near the oven ? 



The kitchen midden to this hut was found at the east end, 

 where were much peat-ash and many fragments of pottery, at a 

 depth of about 3-ft. 6-in. from the present surface. 



Hut G has been but partially explored. On the north side 

 is a structure like a goose or goat house, but very small, and in 

 this fragments of pottery were found. Large upright slabs of 

 stone have been employed in places to form the walls. There 

 seems to have been no division into chambers. The door was 

 near the west end in the south wall, and has its jambs. Whether 

 there was another door further down, or whether a fallen upright 

 slab has formed a gap in the wall, can not be determined with- 

 out further spade work. 



Hut H consists of a single chamber. It has not as yet been 

 searched. Nor has Hut I, that consists of two chambers. A 

 remarkable feature of Hut I is that a trench was carried round 

 the head and north side to convey away any water that ran down 

 the hill-slope towards it. 



There are further structures deserving examination and 

 notice. One of these is a circle of stones to the south of Hut B. 

 There are, showing, about 1 6 stones, and all seem at one time to 

 have been upright. Whether they were ranged in two concen- 

 tric rings, and formed the base of a hut-circle is not certain. 

 The diameter is 12 feet. 



Another circle is very much more distinctly a habitation. 

 The hearth-stones show above the moss. This will have to be 

 explored. Near it is what is probably another hut-circle, but so 

 defaced and pillaged for stones, that its character has been 

 almost destroyed. 



To the south of the settlement is a large circle about 100-ft. 

 in diameter, a pound, with a division running down the centre 

 from east to west, and adjoining it are the remains of two hut- 

 circles. East of the settlement and north-east, are two cairns of 

 small stones, apparently burnt. One, the larger, was constructed 

 over five huge fallen stones, that I at first supposed to be a ruined 

 cromlech. But pick and spade showed that the bases of these 

 stones had never been moved by man. Among the stones and 



