Dun Burga Water
The Dun Burga Water are the remains of a round dun (initially mistaken for a brochure ) that takes up almost the entire area of a small island in Lake Burga Water on Mainland , the main island of the Shetlands in Scotland .
From the bank you can see the part of the outer wall at a height of three or four layers of stone and the rubble on the south side. An artificial dam, of which there are no more traces today and which is said to have started from the coast and led in serpentines to the island under the waterline, has been handed down (OSA 1798).
An unpublished excavation was carried out before 1931.
The rough wall varies from about 2.5 m thick at the south entrance to 1.0 m in the southeast and is preserved up to a height of 1.2 m. Measured by the amount of stone that lies outside the dun, the walls could not have been more than three feet high. The oval enclosed area measures approximately 11.0 × 10.5 m. Both sides of the wall have been preserved as remains over most of the perimeter. The walls were restored after 1931.
Doon Fort in Doon Lough (Loch an Dúin) about 9.0 km north of Ardara, in County Donegal in Ireland is a comparable Dun.
literature
- 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 (= British archaeological reports. British series. 342). Archaeo Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84171-459-3 .
Web links
- Entry on Dun Burga Water in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
- Description Engl.
- Description Engl. and pictures
Coordinates: 60 ° 16 ′ N , 1 ° 35 ′ W