There are now two entrances to the soutterrain, the original one which is a shallow slope and one added for convinience with steps. The plan is unusual. At the base of the original entrance there is a small chamber to the left which could be for defensive purposes - to hack people entering to pieces! Opposite the entrance is a large drystone constructed chamber with a heavily lintelled roof. This has an air hole in the end wall. At the base of the entrance slope there is a 30m passage to the right (which now has the newer stepped entrance at the end of it). This appears to have been a blind passage! i.e. it did not lead to anything. The walls of this passage, like the rest of the structure are drystone built with heavy stone lintels.
If you go outside and look at the ground between the house foundations and the new entrance there is a rise in the ground, which I feel may cover another chamber which branched off the 'blind' passage, but has had its entrance blocked up.
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