Detail of exterior drystone wall face of Dun Grugaig Iron Age fort in Glen Beag, Glenelg, Lochalsh, Scotland, UK, showing large blocks with fillers.
Detail of the exterior drystone wall face of Dun Grugaig Iron Age fort in Glen (Gleann) Beag, Glenelg, Lochalsh, Scotland, UK, showing large blocks with stacks of thin fillers in the gaps. The D-shaped enclosure on a rocky knoll above a precipitous gorge of the Abhainn a Ghlinne Bhig river measures x Although not a circular broch tower it has broch similar features such as a high double wall thick containing a gallery & cells, an entrance passage with door checks & draw-bar slots, & an interior ledge (scarcement) to support a wooden floor, balcony or lean-to. In places the wall is built over deliberately filled rock clefts & two straight sections of walling meet over an outcrop creating a weak point.
Size: 2698px × 3780px
Location: Dun Grugaig Galleried Dun, Glen Beag, Glenelg, Lochalsh, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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