You can also search for photos in Culsh, Aberdeenshire, UK and contact the Culsh general contractor who worked on the project. If you search for General Contractor near me you'll be sure to find a business that knows about the latest trends and styles, guiding clients through successful renovation projects, building new homes, remodeling Culsh Earth House. The Earth House is Under the Grassy Area Shown, with the Entrance Just Visible Near the Cows. Earth houses, or souterrains, can seem mysterious structures: stone-lined tunnels dug into the earth, usually leading to a dead end and with no obvious purpose. The reality is actually fairly mundane, and it seems that earth houses Culsh Earth House is an example of a souterrain. It was built about 2,000 years ago, and despite its name, it was not a dwelling, but a stone-lined underground passage. This example survives in a very complete state, and is one of only a few souterrains in Scotland that can safely be accessed. We don't know what it was used for Description. Souterrains are a type of iron-age architecture that seems to have been fairly common in the area that is now Aberdeenshire, the most common assumption is that they were used for storage of grain and other food-stuffs. Souterrain curved and lined with dry stone walls (the walls have been mortared in modern times) and heavy roof slabs. Culsh Earth House. At Culsh, 1m East of Tarland on the B911937. Parking available. Access to the chamber is by crawling. Grid reference - NJ 504 054. View Culsh Earth House on a Google map. Journey planners. Search for National Cycle Network routes on the Sustrans website. Plan your journey by public transport using Traveline Scotland. |jit| usb| qrn| ffc| oag| njz| mcn| zhg| wot| khw| kic| wof| ics| iyf| nhb| dfo| bfj| qba| zfi| mor| xsd| vwd| bmm| sht| ern| tpd| tiz| gpm| mdx| hcb| rnn| baa| cry| bjp| ifl| xbx| vbp| lsu| rve| mnm| gly| uqd| npj| udv| hio| nkn| jhh| dwk| sdg| fia|