Section 4 of 4
Settlements
Towers, cells and the shape of a monastic site.
Every guide in this section
5 pieces. Each one says what the object is, what it is made of, and what is actually known about it.
- The shape of a monastic siteAn enclosure, a church, cells, a burial ground and a boundary — the standard elements and how they are read from the ground.Read
- The round towerTall, tapering, with a doorway above head height. What the evidence supports about what it was for.Read
- Beehive cellsCorbelled dry-stone huts built without mortar or timber.Read
- The island sitesSettlements placed where getting there is the point.Read
- The vallumThe enclosing bank that marks the boundary between inside and outside.Read