 ... space below, and rising to the number of twenty or more, immediately over the door which gives access to the galleries. In short, the concentration of effort towards the two main objects of space for shelter and complete security was never more strikingly...  Scotland in Pagan Times: The Iron Age - Page 204by Joseph Anderson - 1883 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Scotland - 1878 - 828 pages
...window-like openings rising perpendicularly over each other to admit light and air to the galleries. The concentration of effort towards the two main objects...complete security was never more strikingly exhibited than in these peculiar structures, which though rude in construction are admirably designed f sr size,... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1890 - 670 pages
...with walls 50 feet high, pierced on all sides by vertical ranges of windows or loopholes, commanding every foot of the space below, and rising to the number...the galleries. In short, the concentration of effort to the two main objects of space and complete security was never more strikingly exhibited, and no... | |
 | Scotland - 1890 - 662 pages
...with walls 50 feet high, pierced on all sides by vertical ranges of windows or loopholes, commanding every foot of the space below, and rising to the number...the galleries. In short, the concentration of effort to the two main objects of space and complete security was never more strikingly exhibited, and no... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1892 - 488 pages
...feet high, pierced on all sides with ranges of loopholes commanding every foot of the space below. " In short, the concentration of effort towards the...for this double purpose has ever been discovered or suggested.75 No doubt the origin of the Brochs is assignable to the circumstances and the conditions... | |
 | Robert Munro - Prehistoric peoples - 1899 - 568 pages
...pierced on all sides by vertical ranges of windows, or loopholes, commanding every foot of the same space below, and rising to the number of twenty or...double purpose, has ever been discovered or suggested." * Such being the structural characteristics of the brochs, we have now to glance at some of the minor... | |
 | Robert Munro - Prehistoric peoples - 1899 - 568 pages
...pierced on all sides by vertical ranges of windows, or loopholes, commanding every foot of the same space below, and rising to the number of twenty or...for this double purpose, has ever been discovered or suggested."1 Such being the structural characteristics of the brochs, we have now to glance at some... | |
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