moss wrote:
Howburn Digger wrote:
The high walls were for keeping the near endless, scouring winds out methinks. Even today houses still use the same system of having walls to keep the wind and cold at bay.
Even within the little sunken (out of the wind) dwellings at Skara Brae, the houses have little seperated cells, tiny doorways and walled off bed recesses to cut down on the drafts.
My Uncle Jimmy once owned an old fish smokehouse at Ayr Harbour (on the Newtoin-on-Ayr side of the River Ayr). There were three hearth areas for the small wood fires/ smoker ovens above and there were four doorways! There were a few broken tools lying around too. Was it a temple?
'Was it a temple? Who knows, constant theorising on religions gives little ground for the day to day living requirements of all communities, food preparation, clothes making, tool making etc also had to happen. I suppose evidence found, such as, was there a 'closing down' of the presumed religious building which acknowledged new use of bronze culminating in a great feast of hundreds of slaughtered cattle, it is all good dramatic 'evidence' but did it happen that way?Even within the little sunken (out of the wind) dwellings at Skara Brae, the houses have little seperated cells, tiny doorways and walled off bed recesses to cut down on the drafts.
My Uncle Jimmy once owned an old fish smokehouse at Ayr Harbour (on the Newtoin-on-Ayr side of the River Ayr). There were three hearth areas for the small wood fires/ smoker ovens above and there were four doorways! There were a few broken tools lying around too. Was it a temple?
I have a problem with religious interpretation of sites, sometimes I think ideas are coloured by the prevailing mode of thinking but it is such a spectacular site, bounded on either side by water and surrounded by a high wall, and as you say the reason being to keep the wind out, and maybe defensive....
