Dun an Ruigh Ruaidh, Loch Broom, Ross & Cromarty Excavations in 1968 and 1978

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19397486
AutoresEuan W Mackie (autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas32-79
Fecha de publicación1980-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlasgow Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-8980 • E-ISSN: 2053-7824
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/gas.1980.7.7.32
OpenAlexW1966898151
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas6

The site is an Iron Age stone fortlet, of the semibroch type and probably a prototype broch; it is only the second of its class to be excavated. Radiocarbon dates show that it was built in the 3rd or 2nd centuries b.c. and this early date is supported also by the artefacts. The mainly aceramic material culture shows strong links with S Scotland but the fort itself is Hebridean, as are the three early potsherds found. The wall has an upper and lower intra-mural gallery and seems originally to have contained a roofed round-house with an oval of wooden posts and a central hearth. Later the wall was partly demolished and the Iron Age occupation continued for a while. After a period of abandonment there was some Medieval use of the wall gallery and sheep dippers worked in the ruined fort in recent times

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Beaker · Broom · Excavation · Geography · Hearth · Iron Age · Mural · Radiocarbon dating · Visual arts · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Geology