Dun Hallin
The unexcavated broch Dun Hallin is an Iron Age broch east of the settlement of Lower Halistra on the Waternish Peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides , in the Highland Council Area in Scotland . It occupies the southeastern end of a triangular rocky plateau of about 50.0 × 40.0 m.
Dun Hallin has an outside diameter of about 17.4 meters and an inside diameter of about 10.8 meters. The walls are on the north and west sides with a maximum height of 3.8 meters. The access on the southeast side is in a very bad condition. On either side of the access to oval cells were guards ( English guard cells ), of which only the northern, right cell can be seen. The inside of the brochure is filled with rubble. An intramural gallery is visible on the southwest side and its lintel over the access is preserved in situ . Six steps of an intramural staircase were found when the broch was examined in 1921, but they are no longer visible.
The broch is surrounded by an outer wall that runs around the edge of the hill and is about 1.8 meters high in the south.
The Brochs Dun Borrafiach and Dun Gearymore are also on the Waternish Peninsula.
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 .
- JNG Ritchie: Brochs of Scotland . Princes Risborough, Shire Archeology secund edition 1998, ISBN 0-7478-0389-7 p. 47
Web links
- Entry on Dun Hallin in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 57 ° 32'24.7 " N , 6 ° 35'11" W.