Case Study: Iron Age roundhouse, The Black Spout wood, nr Pitlochry

Interior of the roundhouse, Image © Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust

Through community excavations, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust has contributed to our understanding of monumental Iron Age buildings in Scotland. The Black Spout helps us understand how the brochs and duns, predominately found in the north and west of Scotland, may relate to large timber round houses in the lowlands and east coast.

See more like this at 5.1 Building in the Round

This case study was originally part of the ScARF poster at the 2014 IfA conference. The entire poster can downloaded as a pdf  (11MB).

 

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