Dun Vulan
The Iron Age Broch Dun Vulan (also called Dun Dulan, Dùn Mhulan, Dun Vulin or Rudha Ardvull) is located on a peninsula protruding into the sea on Loch Aird a 'Mhuile, near Bornais (Bornish) on the west side of the Hebridean island of South Uist in Scotland .
description
The brochure was published around 150 BC. Built on an island in a freshwater lake before the open sea broke through. It is about 19 meters in diameter, with an entrance facing east. A massive double wall encloses the only partially preserved intramural corridor, which has connections with the interior and the access. The original floor level of the Broch was 1.8 m below the current surface and the flat stones in the current door area are the lintel of the original passage to the ground floor of the Broch. There was also an upper floor that rested on a ledge protruding from the north wall. A roof for which there is no evidence (even for other brochures) could have been built with Canadian driftwood, as South Uist was treeless at the time. The huge garbage heap in front of the Broch shows that the users of the Broch ate a lot of pork.
An entrance, on the south side of the wall, led into a small (no longer visible today), elongated chamber in the wall, from which a stone staircase ran clockwise. Shortly after construction, this staircase caused a break in the masonry and that part of the wall collapsed within a few centuries.
A small settlement developed around the Broch in the first centuries AD. It consisted of a small and two larger rectangular stone-paved houses. Around 400 AD a round house was built inside the Broch, which has since been destroyed .
With the arrival of the Vikings , from 795 AD, the site was abandoned. The "Borg" on the "ness" (the fortress on the headland), however, became the Nordic name of the municipality that is now Bornais.
literature
- Ian Armit: Broch Building in Northern Scotland: The Context of Innovation. World Archeology 21/3 (Architectural Innovation) 1990, pp. 435-445.
- Euan W. Mackie: The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC - AD 500: architecture and material culture. Part 1: the Orkney and Shetland Isles. BAR, Oxford: 2002, (Brit Ser 342).
- Michael Parker Pearson: Between Land and Sea: excavations at the brochures of Dun Vulan, South Uist. 1999
- Ian Armit: Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland. Tempus, Stroud 2003, ISBN 9780752419329 .
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Coordinates: 57 ° 14 ′ 26.2 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 57.2" W.