Arnabost basement
The basement of Arnabost was in Arnabost on the inside Hebrides -Insel Coll in Argyll and Bute in Scotland . In the case of basements , a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
The Arnabost basement was discovered around 1855 when the road from Sorisdale to Ballyhaugh was being built. It is under the Carrigeway south of the junction with the Arinagour Road. From the entrance, which was on the northwest side of the street and is now covered by a house, an approximately 11.6 m long corridor extends in an arch to the southeast, which at the end leads to an oval chamber with a diameter of approximately 2, 1 m extended. The corridor is about 0.7 m wide and the stone built walls have a maximum height of about 1.3 m. The roof consisted of lintels made of stone and wood. The use of wood is unusual, but has also been demonstrated in the basement of Bankfoot in Perthshire . The corridor lies under the modern street and is supposedly still intact, but the end chamber in a gravel pit at the southeast end has been destroyed and the corridor has been closed with drywall .
In 1896 the chamber was excavated and a bronze needle , at least two flint cuts , fragments of coarse pottery and some bones and shells were found. Two blue glass beads and "a twisted strip of gold" are said to have been found on other occasions. Only the pearls and the needle are preserved.
Betty MacDougall describes the discovery and destruction of the basement in 1966 in her work on the history of the island (in "Isle of Coll. Eilean Cholla").
See also
literature
- Frederick Threlfall Wainwright: The Souterrains of Southern Pictland. RKP: London 1963.
Web links
- Description Engl. and picture
- Description Engl. and picture
- Entry on the basement of Arnabost in Canmore, the Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 38 '55 " N , 6 ° 33' 14.3" W.