Dun Dornaigil
Dun Dornaigil (also called Dornadilla) is a brochure in County Sutherland in the middle of the Scottish Highlands . It is located at Alltnacaillich south of Loch Hope .
The circular wall is only 6.7 m high above the entrance while the rest is only about 2.4 m high. A mighty located above the entrance triangle fall , (Engl. Triangular lintel ) like him and the Broch of Culswick and Caisteal Grugaig show. The interior of the tall wall has collapsed and a concrete pillar supports the facade. The reason for the collapse is that the Broch was built on the edge of a river terrace above the Strathmore , which meandered and shifted its course over the centuries.
- Dun Dornaigil
Dun Dornaigil
The entrance
The river side
Side view
Inside the wall there is a stone staircase and several narrow galleries. The interior has a diameter of 14.5 m. The brochure has not been excavated and is full of rubble.
literature
- Anna Ritchie: Scotland BC. An introduction to the prehistoric houses, tombs, ceremonial monuments and fortifications in the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland . Scottish Development Dept., Edinburgh 1989, ISBN 0-11-493427-4 .
- Ian Armit: Towers in the North. The Brochs of Scotland . Tempus, Stroud 2003, ISBN 0-7524-1932-3 .
- Ian Armit: Broch Building in Northern Scotland. The context of innovation . In: World Archeology 21 ( Architectural Innovation ), 1990, 3, ISSN 0043-8243 , pp. 435-445.
- JNG Ritchie: Brochs of Scotland . Princes Risborough, Shire Archeology secund edition 1998, ISBN 0-7478-0389-7 pp. 47, 49
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Coordinates: 58 ° 21 '58.8 " N , 4 ° 38' 21.8" W.