Rosal (Scotland)

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Rosal (also called Naver Forest) is one of 40 Iron Age basements in Sutherland , Scotland . It is located on the east bank of the Naver River near the mouth of the Syre, at Strathnaver, south of Farr . In the case of basements, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.

The abandoned community of Rosal (see Bettyhill ) lies on an Iron Age settlement from which apart from the basement there are also piles of field stones and hut circles.

The basement of Rosal has a stepped ramp access, which leads to a basically undifferentiated corridor-chamber structure made of dry masonry about 12.8 m long with only three preserved lintels . The entrance to the chamber is 0.61 m wide. There were two posts placed in front of the corridor walls. Their vertically protruding profile contrasts with the horizontal masonry. The low ceiling lintel lies above the post. The chamber has a ceiling made of panels that are occasionally supported by posts. A special feature is the external inclination of the aisle walls, which are usually inclined inwards.

No hut was connected to the basement, but to the north of the basement there were traces of a low ring-shaped embankment about nine meters in diameter. The excavation revealed that it was made up of small stones that are insufficient for the foundation of a hut, although the large stones may have been removed. The hut circles including "Enclosure A", a nameless stone circle and four other places were discovered in 1962 during the excavation by H. Fairhurst. The circles are nine to twelve meters in diameter and consist of low walls of earth and rubble. Enclosure A has an entrance to the southeast. A rectangular structure excavated by Fairhurst turned out to be the platform of a round hut with a diameter of 12.4 m, cut into the slope on the southeast side and enclosed by a 1.2 m wide and 75 cm high wall of blocks on the north-west side.

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literature

  • John Xavier Wellington Patrick Corcoran: Excavation of two chambered cairns at Mid Gleniron Farm, Glenluce, Wigtownshire. In: The Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Series 3, Vol. 46, 1969, ISSN  0141-1292 , pp. 29-90, ( digital version (PDF; 130 MB) ).
  • Robert Gourlay: Sutherland - a historical guide , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1996 ISBN 1-874744-44-0 p. 94
  • Horace Fairhurst: Rosal: a deserted township in Strath Naver, Sutherland. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 100, 1967/1968, ISSN  0081-1564 , pp. 135-169 .

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Coordinates: 58 ° 20 ′ 22 "  N , 4 ° 14 ′ 15.5"  W.