Wadbister basement
The basement of Wadbister is south of the Loch of Grimsetter (Grims Sitz) on the Shetland island of Bressay in Scotland . In the case of basements , a distinction is made between "earth-cut", "rock-cut", "mixed", "stone built" and "wooden". The Wabbister basement is a "stone built" basement.
The well-preserved oval chamber is 1.95 m long, 1.35 to 1.5 m wide and 0.9 m high. The roof consists of large, irregularly horizontally laid panels. The corridor was robbed and only the inner third, about 4 1.35 m long, was in its original condition. It is about 0.8 m high and 0.95 m wide on average. A protruding plate narrows the inner end to 0.35 m. A broken millstone was reused in the chamber wall. There are a few stone slabs on the chamber floor, which probably form the original floor design. The entrance passage is partially filled with earth, which makes it difficult to access the basement.
See also
literature
- Ian Armit: Scotland's hidden history. Tempus, Stroud 1998, ISBN 0-7524-1400-3 , pp. 87-88.
- RCAHMS: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, Edinburgh 1946.
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Coordinates: 60 ° 8 ′ 12 " N , 1 ° 4 ′ 20.3" W.
