Tealing basement
The basement of Tealing , also known as Tealing Earth House , was discovered in 1871 and is a basement near the town of Tealing about eight kilometers north of Dundee in the Scottish Council Area Angus . In the case of the basement, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
The wall structure made of orthostats and dry masonry is clearly recognizable, but all capstones in the complex are missing. Near the north entrance is a decorated boulder from the Bronze Age , which was used as a secondary component in this facility from the Iron Age .
The sides form a common for Scottish, in contrast to Irish basement, banana-shaped structure of about 2.0 m deep and 2.3 m wide and about 24.3 m long with a small chamber at the end. The chambers of the basement were interpreted as storage space, which, however, does not take into account the conditions, especially in the much smaller facilities of the Orkney . A number of artifacts have been found inside, including a bracelet, bronze rings , stone cups and animal bones.
In the British Isles , the Iron Age basements are also called Earth Houses , Fogous or Weems . The term weem, used in Scotland, comes from the Gaelic Uaimh and means cave.
Well-preserved basements are common in the Angus plains.
- Ardestie , also in the north of Dundee, is a basement, the wall structure of which is particularly clear.
- Carlungie is 1.7 km northeast of Ardestie and has a complex series of corridors. They were connected to above-ground areas and were already backfilled in prehistoric times.
Not far from the basement is a historically interesting dovecote from the 16th century. The cup-and-ring markings of Gallow Hill A + B are northwest of Tealing.
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literature
- Frederick T. Wainwright: Souterrains in Scotland. In: Antiquity. Vol. 27, No. 108, 1953, ISSN 0003-598X , pp. 219-232, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00025084 .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 31 '54.5 " N , 2 ° 57' 25.9" W.