. The Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic manners, as preserved among the Highlanders: being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities, and national peculiarities of Scotland; more particularly of the northern, or Gaëlic parts of the country, where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained . mira-tion of the ingenuity of former ages. Arthurs oven, thatunique and curious specimen of ancient architecture,standing near the river Carron, was razed to the groundfor the construction of a mill pond ! This venerable monu-ment, of which Stukely and Gordo
. The Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic manners, as preserved among the Highlanders: being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities, and national peculiarities of Scotland; more particularly of the northern, or Gaëlic parts of the country, where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained . mira-tion of the ingenuity of former ages. Arthurs oven, thatunique and curious specimen of ancient architecture,standing near the river Carron, was razed to the groundfor the construction of a mill pond ! This venerable monu-ment, of which Stukely and Gordon give engravings, w^asof a circular form. The walls were bent over in themanner of a vault, without closing, a considerable aperturebeing left in the centre, which with an arched door andsmall window lighted the interior. It has been supposeda Koman temple erected to Terminus. Horsley thinks ita sepulchre, and Pinkerton believes it gave the hint forthe erection of the Duns. It is certainly of the samecharacter, and resembled some structures in Ireland thatwill be briefly noticed. The following sections of two of these buildings, dunDornghil, in Strathmore, parish of Durness, in Sutherland, DUNS. 17 (A,) and the burg of Mousa, (B,) supposed of USTorwegianconstruction, shew no further difference than a greaterrudeness in the The stairs of these Duns were sometimes, as beforeobserved, carried up in a rude winding form, as in that atMousa; but the general plan appears to have been in themanner shewn by this section.
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