Basement in Glen Tungadal
The partially destroyed basement in Glen Tungadal is 200 m east of Loch Duagrich, near Totardor in the Fairy Glen in the center of the Isle of Skye in Scotland . In the case of basements , a distinction is made between "earth-cut", "rock-cut", "mixed", "stone built" and "wooden" basements.
Basement areas usually occur in connection with Iron Age structures. More than 500 have been located in Scotland. About 20 of them are on Skye. The basement (also known locally as the Earth House) is marked as dun on Ordnance Survey maps .
description
The Bronze Age basement has an approximately 7.0 m long, straight gallery made of dry masonry , ("stone built") roofed with long falling stones that are approximately 0.2 m below the ground. The access is on a step. The walls are well built, and on the south side there are several large slabs at the end. At the northeast end of the gallery there are signs that the corridor curved north and back west, perhaps connected to two oval cells that were placed in a line roughly parallel to the gallery. These signs are indefinite, and their existence can only be verified by excavation. They appear as cavities about 3.6 and 2.7 m long that are about 2.1 and 1.8 m wide.
Nearby are the remains of a beehive hut with an inner diameter of around 5.0 m and 1.5 m thick walls. Other basement areas on Skye:
See also
literature
- Roger Miket: The Souterrains of Skye. In: Beverley Balin Smith & Iain Banks (Eds.): In the Shadow of the Brochs. The Iron Age in Scotland. 2002 pp. 83, 90, 98-101.
Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 57 ° 22 ′ 37.4 " N , 6 ° 19 ′ 13.4" W.