Braehead Farm basement

The Braehead Farm basement is located in a field near the farm that gives it its name, near the River Dee and the ruins of the Church of St Nathalan's Kirk von Tullich (with the symbol "Tullich I" of the Picts and the cross-slab "Tullich II") in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . In the basements that were built around 2000 years ago, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.

The access to the basement is a square recess in the ground, framed by stone slabs. The vertical descent leads to a chamber that is largely filled with earth. The basement seems to have been flooded by the River Dee at some point. Originally the corridor 17.0 m long and 1.65 m wide was about 2.15 m high.

The purpose of the basement is not exactly known. During the excavation in the 1920s, gray-white deposits were discovered, presumably of ash, which speaks for rituals.

See also

• Basement in Scotland

literature

• Joanna Close-Brooks: Exploring Scotland's heritage. The highlands. HMSO, Edinburgh 1986, ISBN 0-11-492460-0 .
• B. Glendinning: Braehead Farm souterrain (Glenmuick, Tullich & Glengairn parish), geophysical survey, Discovery Excav Scot, 1999.

Web links

• Description Engl. and picture
• http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6106
• Entry on Braehead Farm Basement  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database

Coordinates: 57 ° 3 '49.8 "  N , 3 ° 0' 9.8"  W.