The Roundhouses Brochs And Wheelhouses Of Atlantic Scotland C 700 Bc Ad 500

Download or read book The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC - AD 500: The Orkney and Shetland Isles written by Euan Wallace MacKie and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brochs, roundhouses and wheelhouses are an ill-understood part of Scotland's archaeological heritage even though they are a fairly widespread phenomenon across northern and north-west Sotland and the western and northern islands. This volume is the first part of a project attempting to collate information on these structures and presents a large corpus of data on the buildings and the artefacts that have been found in association with them. The data is presented on an island-by-island and site-by-site basis. Two further sections on the best preserved example, a tower on Mousa in Shetland, and a discussion on the development of broch studies since the 16th century, are also given.