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shaped stones, though at one or two places the natural rock 

 protrudes and forms the pavement. Another entrance to the 

 camp, which seems to have been original, is situated on the 

 South-West ; but it consists simply of cuts or openings through 

 the outer earthworks. Inside a traverse, running North and 

 South, stands the main building of Edin's Hall, which, until 

 the excavations were made, might have been regarded as a 

 huge cairn, so thoroughly in places had the lower parts of 

 the building been overgrown and concealed. The Broch 

 measures 55 feet in internal, and 92 feet in external diameter, 

 while its external circumference describes almost a true circle. 

 Its foundation is composed of flat stones, from which the 

 wall, constructed of loose stones without the aid of cement 

 or mortar, rises perpendicularly. Its outer face is smooth 

 and regular, but the inner lacks proof of much care having 

 been bestowed upon it, the flat stones laid in courses, so 

 noticeable on the outside, being altogether absent. The 

 doorway is on the East side, penetrating a wall of 16J feet 

 thick. In it lie two large stones, estimated as weighing 

 3 J tons apiece, which may have been used as lintels ; and 

 as they are insufficient to cover the whole passage, and no 

 others of like dimensions remain, it is believed that the walls 

 gradually converged in the inner portion, and thereby formed 

 a roof to the passage. At this doorway, and on the South 

 side, must have stood the great fireplace, as the stones here 

 are much blackened, and have crumbled away. The passage 

 is paved, and leads to the central court, nearly a fourth of 

 which is also paved with flat rough stones. On either side 

 of it is a cell or chamber, that on the North being kidney- 

 shaped, and entering from the ground level, and that on the 

 South being a few feet above the floor, and entering by a 

 rude staircase, neither of which communicates with the central 

 area. All the other chambers enter from it, the one on 

 the North being halved by a partition wall, the other on 

 the South being divided into three. A third chamber is 

 situated on the South, leading to a narrow staircase of nine 

 steps, each formed of a single whinstone of various heights. 

 No other building is found inside the subsidiary enclosure; 

 but on the wall dividing the inner from the outer portion of 

 the camp stood a large strongly-built circular outwork, which 



