Bullionfield basement
The outgoing, basement of Bullion Field was west of Dundee close to the access road to the motorway A 90 in Perth and Kinross in Scotland . 1955 mentioned A. MacLeod from Longforgan (also the site of a Souterrains) that it previously when he worked for nine or ten years at a road widening, a basement 've seen. He pointed to a place where the highway called Kingsway crosses a large round hill, an ideal place for a basement.
The basement was destroyed and removed when the Kingsway was built. The last few meters were preserved in the wall on the southeast side of the street, and MacLeod saw this fragment in 1946. He describes it as an “underground passage” with a width of about 2.1 m and a height of 1.8 m, “narrower at the top, because the walls were sloping inwards ”and a roof made of stone slabs. The cavity was "mostly filled with black ash". The entire structure was removed when the wall was reset. In this description a basement with intact cantilever walls and an in situ roof can be recognized.
Nearby are the basements of Mylnefield and the Pitkerro stone box.
See also
literature
- Ian Armit: The abandonment of souterrains: evolution, catastrophe or dislocation? In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1999
Web links
- Entry on Bullionfield Basement in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database