Someones submitted a nice pic of the stone now to the Highland HER :-)
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Superb 1880 photo of the excavated broch interior showing "entrance to stair-foot Chamber & stair, left and right respectively, also floor Cell and Well - with Querns, crushers, Cup-marked stone, Mortar and Central slab".
Also -
http://www.historylinksarchive.org.uk/picture/number3512.asp
- also dated 1880 showing the exterior at the time.
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From the Historylinks Museum records, could be from around 1960, as some other photo's in this album have been dated by the photographer.
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Aberscross with very low ground cover. The photo is labelled 1930 (colour then?), but others in the same photographers collected dated up to the 1960s.
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Photos of the resiting of the stone in 1968. The stone seems to have fallen / been taken down at some point - note the separated base and detail of repair.
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Nice old photograph here.
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I live in the Northern Highlands of Scotland with my young family, although I grew up in Somerset visiting and loving Avebury, Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Stanton Drew, the sites of West Penwith... Always facinated, always learning, always on the hunt :-). These days I am an artist and have found myself studying stones as a main branch of my work...
Adding links, as I often post related material on my blog and Facebook art group...
http://nickipaints.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicki-MacRae/54822611086?ref=ts
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