Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video, with Scottish music, of a short walk around the earth house or souterrain on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Tealing located North of Dundee in Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. Dating from the Iron Age, the earth house comprises a passageway, 80 foot long curved gallery, and small inner chambers. The walls are approximately 7 feet in height and the house would once have been covered by a thatched roof. A number of artefacts, including a bracelet, bronze rings, stone cups and animal bones, have been found inside the earth house. The earth house was uncovered by a farmer in 1871. Souterrain, from French sous terrain, meaning under ground is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age. These structures appear to have been brought northwards from Gaul during the late Iron Age. Regional names include earth houses, fogous and Pictish houses. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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