Basement of Langwell Water
The basement of Langwell Water is west of Berriedale, near Latheron in Caithness in Scotland . In the case of basements , a distinction is made between "earth-cut", "rock-cut", "mixed", "stone built" and "wooden" basements.
The basement is located north of Langwell Water in the remains of a 15.0 m oval enclosure made of an only partially preserved 0.6 to 2.8 m high and 2.5 to 2.7 m wide earth-stone wall. The inside of the wall is lined with 0.8 m high stones. The enclosure built into the slope has an entrance about 1.0 m wide, which is lined with large stones at the east end. On the north side of the entrance are the remains of a basement in the form of a stone-lined corridor, which leads a short distance into the embankment in the north and ends in a small semicircular chamber 0.7 m deep and 1.0 m wide, which with a large stone slab is covered. The basement seems to have been entered from the northeast side of the entrance, but only the rear half of the partially roofed end chamber is visible, the rest is filled with stones. The distance from the entrance to the rear of the chamber is 4.3 m.
Another enclosure is 40 m to the west.
See also
literature
- Joanna Close-Brooks: Exploring Scotland's heritage. The highlands. HMSO, Edinburgh 1986, ISBN 0-11-492460-0 .
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- Description (Engl.)
Coordinates: 58 ° 11 ′ 12.5 " N , 3 ° 35 ′ 57.5" W.