Towers in the North: The Brochs of ScotlandThis book describes the current state of our knowledge of the Brochs in Scotland--the most remarkable prehistoric buildings in Europe--and explores the controversies over their origins and functions. The author also provides an annotated list of the most accessible and well-preserved Broch sites today. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
From roundhouse to tower | 33 |
Anatomy of a broch tower | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Antiquaries of Scotland Archaeological archaeologists areas Atlantic roundhouses Atlantic Scotland Atlantic Scottish Iron Barra British Iron Age broch architecture broch tower broch village Bronze Age Buchlyvie building built century BC Clickhimin Cnip colour plate communities complex roundhouse construction Crosskirk deposits ditches drystone Dun Bharabhat Dun Carloway Dun Telve Dun Troddan Dun Vulan earlier early Edin's Hall Edinburgh élite enclosure entrance passage Euan MacKie evidence example excavations floor galleries Gurness hearth hillfort Historic Scotland Historic Scotland NGR houses inhabitants interior internal interpretation intra-mural cells intra-mural stair Jarlshof land landscape Leckie Lewis Loch na Beirgh mainland Midhowe millennium BC monuments Mousa North Uist Northern Isles occupation Orcadian original Orkney perhaps period Pictish pottery prehistory probably radiocarbon dates rampart reconstruction Roman roof Scottish Iron Age seems settlement Shetland Society of Antiquaries South Uist southern brochs stone structures suggest survive timber door timber roundhouse tower-like Western Isles wheelhouse