White & Brown Caterthun
White & Brown Caterthun near Brechin in Angus , Scotland , are a special form of Iron Age Scottish hill fort and are among the best preserved in the country.
The White Caterthun ( location ) is marked by a lot of light stones, while the Brown Caterthun ( location ) is under a dark heather . The different forts are 1.6 miles apart. Their basic elements are main walls made of stones with outdoor facilities, but the size and design vary widely. The White Caterthun to the west has an abundance of stones that come from two crumbling concentric walls which, when intact, made an imposing sight. The inner wall was about 12 m thick and several meters high, and enclosed an area of about 0.7 hectares. Now the stone mass is distributed over a ring about 30 m wide. A large free space inside marks the location of a cistern carved into the rock for the water supply. Two large outer earthworks are still visible.
The Brown Caterthun is bigger, but not as impressive as the white one. It has three outer earthworks. Both Caterthuns have up to nine entrances, which are arranged like the spokes of a wheel. If they are original, these were not true forts. According to radiocarbon dating , the Brown Caterthun appears to have been in the second half of the first millennium BC. To have been built and modified over several centuries. Parts of the White Caterthun are contemporary with the Brown. However, it is believed that the main wall was built by the Picts or their predecessors in the first centuries AD.
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. Archeology and Early History. Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1981, ISBN 0-500-02100-7 , ( Ancient places and people 99).
- Ian AG Shepherd: Exploring Scotland's Heritage. Grampian . HMSO, Edinburgh 1986, ISBN 0-11-492453-8 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Among the approximately simultaneous 16 castles on Öland with Castle Ismantorp one which also has nine goals
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