Broomhouse Mains
Broomhouse Mains (also called Earth House or Weem ) is a basement west of the Broomhouse Mains farm near Edromin in the Scottish Borders in Scotland . In the case of the basement, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
The basement, discovered around 1843, was excavated in 1868. It is an unusual system of angled corridors made of dry masonry , which terminate in a trapezoidal chamber with an apse at the wider end. The chamber has a recessed entrance with side pillars and a lintel . The ceiling of the chamber ends as a cantilever vault . Some fragments of animal bones were found. The basement was filled in for conservation after the excavation and has been closed since then.
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literature
- DM Home: Account of a subterranean building found near Broomhouse, the property of Colonel Logan Home, in the Parish of Edrom , Berwickshire ', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol. 8, 1868-70. Pp. 20-6
- Humphrey Welfare: The southern souterrains. In: Roger Miket, Colin Burgess: Between and beyond the Walls. Essays on the prehistory and history of North Britain in honor of George Jobey. Donald, Edinburgh 1984, ISBN 0-85976-087-1 , pp. 305-323.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 58.2 " N , 2 ° 18 ′ 35.6" W.