Dun Fiadhairt
Dun Fiadhairt is an Iron Age broch about 3.5 kilometers north-northwest of Dunvegan on the northwest side of the island of Skye in the Highlands in Scotland . Dun Fiadhairt stands on a low hill in the middle of moors on a peninsula on the east side of the Loch Dunvegan Sea Book.
description
The broch has about 16.8 m outside and 9.6 m inside diameter. The approximately 3.7-meter-long access includes two opposing guard cells ( English guard-cells ) and is located on the west side. The brochure has a double cell in the side wall and a "guard cell" at the foot of the stairs. The rest of the wall is taken up by a gallery. The gallery is accessed through a small second entrance. It is not certain that this second entrance is part of the original structure, as second entrances found in other brochs appear to have been added later.
Dun Fiadhairt was excavated in 1892 by Countess Vincent Baillet de Latour. Information about this early excavation does not exist. 20 years later she excavated Dun Beag with greater care. The finds contain a lot of broken pottery and a large amount of "iron slag". The stone finds include a rotary hand mill, a grindstone, a hammer stone, spindle whorl and the fragment of an arm protection plate . Glass beads were found in different colors. 59 amber beads in the form of short cylinders probably formed a necklace.
- Dun Fiadhairt
literature
- Ian Armit: Towers in the North. The Brochs of Scotland. Tempus, Stroud 2003, ISBN 0-7524-1932-3 .
- Euan W. MacKie: The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC - AD 500. Architecture and Material Culture. Volume 2: The Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands (= BAR. British series. 444, 2). Archaeopress, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-1-4073-0134-1 .
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360 ° panorama over Dun Fiadhairt
Coordinates: 57 ° 27 '34.2 " N , 6 ° 37' 5.2" W.