Ardross basement

Ardross Souterrain is a prehistoric underground structure ( basement ) discovered in 1787 and described in 1878 in the Council Area Fife in Scotland and is marked as basement on the OS map . In the case of the basement, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.

The "stone built" basement is located in a field on Coalyard Hill, north of the A917 and northeast of Elie, between Elie and St Monans, and is a typical Scottish basement, the inward sloping walls of which are made of dry stone . The building, covered with large slabs, is at the highest point of a slight rise and may have been connected to an above-ground building.

Geoffrey Wainwright (1937-2017) stated that this basement, although located in Fife, had no morphological connections to structures in the southern Pictland and was built by colonists who came from the northern islands.

literature

Ian Armit: Scotland's hidden history. Tempus, Stroud 1998, ISBN 0-7524-1400-3 , pp. 87-88.
John Baldwin: Edinburgh, Lothians and the Borders (= Exploring Scotland's Heritage. ). HMSO, Edinburgh 1997, ISBN 0-11-495292-2 , No. 85.