Broch from Tirefour
The Broch of Tirefour (also called Lynn of Lorn) is located not far from Oban on the island of Lismore , in Argyll and Bute in Scotland . There is a ferry connection from Oban to Achnacroish in the center of the island. The Broch , which is one of the best preserved in the region, is about five kilometers northwest of the port near the coast.
The round brochure lies on an elongated limestone ridge and is about 12.2 m in diameter. Its walls made of dry masonry are about 4.5 m thick at the bottom and rise three meters, in places even 4.9 m. The interior is littered with the rubble of the walls. The inner wall becomes thinner at a height of around 2.5 m and forms a circumferential platform 0.6 m wide. It is believed that there was a wooden platform here. Below the edge, on the north side, is a 1.0 m wide, buried entrance that led to a wall cell or staircase. The remains of the intramural gallery, which serves to improve the statics of the structure, can be recognized up to about 2.7 m above the ground. The straight access to the Broch is on the southwest side and is 1.4 m wide. There are outer works in the northeast and southwest, which consist of walls running across the ridge. The wall in the southwest is similar to the other and three meters thick at the base. It tapers up to 1.1 m in height. There is only one passage in this wall that is in line with the entrance to the Broch.
The Tirefour Broch is a Scheduled Monument .
literature
- Ian Armit: Towers in the North. The Brochs of Scotland. Tempus, Stroud 2003, ISBN 0-7524-1932-3 .
- Dennis W. Harding: Forts, duns, brochs and crannogs: Iron Age settlements in Argyll. In: Graham Ritchie (ed.): The archeology of Argyll. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1997, ISBN 0-7486-0645-9 , pp. 118-140.
- Euan W. MacKie: The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC - AD 500. Architecture and Material Culture. Volume 1: The Orkney and Shetland Isles (= BAR. British series. 342). Archaeopress, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84171-459-3 .
- JNG Ritchie: Brochs of Scotland . Princes Risborough, Shire Archeology secund edition 1998, ISBN 0-7478-0389-7 p. 45
Web links
- Entry to Tirefour Broch in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 31 '47.2 " N , 5 ° 28' 5.9" W.