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is little space between the edge of the rock and the base of the building. It is a dry-built circular construction with an interior diameter of 24 feet (7.3 m), the wall being 10 feet 6 inches (3.20 m) thick near the base. The entrance passage is from the south, only 2 feet (0.61 m) wide at the interior end, and remains to a height of 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) on the left side. Only one or two of the lowest courses of the outside wall of the building remain visible in places, and the rest is concealed by ruins. The interior has probably been cleared of debris, and there the wall exists to a height of 7 feet 4 inches (2.24 m).
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A 1911 survey of the broch reported that "there are no signs of chambers in the walls, nor of galleries, the building is poor, the stones are not carefully selected and laid, and the numerous interstices are packed with small angular fragments". A later, 1980, appraisal notes that "reservations on it
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